[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Without an industrial economy, the modern army, as in America, could not exist; it is an army of machines. Professional economists usually consider military in…

It is the political task of the social scientist - as of any liberal educator - continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issue…

But now that war has become seemingly total and seemingly permanent, the free sport of kings has become the forced and internecine business of people, and dipl…