What William Graham Sumner Would Say About Trump And Vance’s Tariff Rhetoric – OpEd

By Kody Jensen

William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a professor, sociologist, clergyman, and advocate of laissez faire, the gold standard, and free trade. His book What Social Classes Owe to Each Other was influential in the thinking of Leonard Read, according to Mary Senholz’s biography of the FEE founder.

Whilst...