Why Laissez-Faire Is NOT Social Darwinism

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The accusation of "Social Darwinism" was created in 1944 by Richard Hofstadter to describe the laissez-faire economics of William Sumner and Herbert Spencer. But does this charge really hold up under scrutiny?

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