Brooks Adams

Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848 – February 13, 1927), better known simply as Brooks Adams, was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at Harvard Law School in 1870 and 1871.

Quotes

• Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
  • The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History (1895), p. 165.

Quotes about Brooks Adams

• While Paul Pigors contends that the main purpose of administration is to preserve the status quo in society, Brooks Adams regards administration as a chief agent of social change.
  • Rumki Basu (2004), Public Administration: Concepts And Theories. p. 90

External links

• Works by Brooks Adams at Project Gutenberg
• The Economics of Human Energy in Brooks Adams, Ezra Pound and Robert Theobald
• Brooks Adams, The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1896
• Brooks Adams at Find a grave.