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modation, and (e) assimilation? 22. What are the factors producing internal migration in the United States? 23. In what sense is the drift to the cities a result of competition? 24. What is Ripley's conclusion in regard to urban selection and the ethnic composition of cities? 25. What are the outstanding results of demographic segregation and social selection in the United States? 26. What, in your judgment, are the chief characteristics of inter-racial competition? 27. To what extent do you agree with Walker's analysis of the social forces involved in race suicide in the United States? 28. In what specific ways is competition now a factor in race suicide? 29. What will be the future effects of inter-racial competition upon the ethnic stock of the American people? 30. "There is a sense in which much of the orthodox system of political economy is eternally true." Explain. 31. To what extent and in what sense is economic competition unconscious? 32. What differences other than innate mental ability enter into competition between different social groups and different persons? 33. Who are your competitors? 34. Of the existence (as identified persons) of what proportion of these competitors are you unconscious? 35. What is meant by competitive co-operation? Illustrate. (See pp. 508, 558.) 36. What do you understand by the term "economic equilibrium"? 37. Is "economic equilibrium" identical with "social solidarity"? What is the relation, if any, between the two concepts? 38. To what extent does competition make for a natural harmony of individual interests? 39. What did Adam Smith mean by "an invisible hand"? 40. "Civilization is the resultant not of conscious co-operation but of the unconscious competition of individuals." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? 41. "By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it." What is the argument for and against this position? 42. Why has the laissez-faire theory in economics been largely abandoned? 43. What do you understand by the term "freedom"? How far may freedom be identified with freedom of competition? 44. Do you accept the conception of Bastiat that "competition is liberty"? 45. How does money make for freedom? Does it make for or against co-operation? Are co-operation and competition mutually antagonistic terms? 46. Under what c
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