Reeve, Sidney Armor. Cost of competition: an effort at the understanding of familiar facts. **$2. McClure.
The theory that competition is the one great curse of to-day is vigorously advanced in this volume. “As a remedy Mr. Reeve puts forward the abolition of all rent, all interest, all commercial competition and barter, and the return to first principles, when friendly savages exchange fish for hare without regard to profit or cost.... The chapters upon sweatshops and prostitution, upon congestion in great cities with the resultant evils of landlordism, upon the effect of competition in debasing the pulpit, the stage, and literature will fix the attention even of those who dissent from some conclusions.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Its social vision may be astigmatic, but it is unmistakably penetrating.” Winthrop More Daniels.
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“It is written with all the zeal of a missionary, and upholds the cause of socialism with vigor and earnestness.”
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“We commend it to all who are interested in the grave economic, labor and humanitarian problems of the day, and who are possessed of time and courage sufficient to follow through what for these busy days is a long and somewhat technical discussion.”
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“His book is worth attention by students of our social pathology, and deserves a sympathetic reception as a sign of the times and as a contribution toward their amendment.”