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In this encylcopedia entry, Ryan defines "individualism" as "the tendency to magnify individual liberty, as against external authority, and individual activity, as against associated activity." Extreme individualism, as defined by Ryan, rejects the…

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This book was composed of a series of lectures delivered at Fordham University's School of Social Service at the end of 1919 and beginning of 1920 on the issue of social reconstruction, shortly after the issuance of the "Bishop's Program for Social…

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This the actual plan presented by the Committee on Social Reconstruction. The plan is called "a practical and moderate program." Though it deals with specific issues such as a living wage and vocational training, it does not provide specific…

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In 1889, Donnelly wrote Caeser's Column, a utopian science fiction novel. The book is a cautionary tale set one hundred years in the future (1988). In Chapter XI, the protagonist learns that unbridled capitalism ruined the political and economic…

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Ryan's Ph.D. dissertation was published as A Living Wage in 1906. In it Ryan made an economic and moral argument for government-mandated minimum wage legislation. In the first excerpt, Ryan argues that the Natural Rights provide the justification for…
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