Chapter 8

I. Introduction 1. Popular Conceptions of Competition 505 2. Competition a Process of Interaction 507 3. Classification of the Materials 511

II. Materials

A. The Struggle for Existence 1. Different Forms of the Struggle for Existence. _J. Arthur Thomson_ 513 2. Competition and Natural Selection. _Charles Darwin_ 515 3. Competition, Specialization, and Organization. _Charles Darwin_ 519 4. Man: An Adaptive Mechanism. _George W. Crile_ 522

B. Competition and Segregation 1. Plant Migration, Competition, and Segregation. _F. E. Clements_ 526 2. Migration and Segregation. _Carl Buecher_ 529 3. Demographic Segregation and Social Selection. _William Z. Ripley_ 534 4. Inter-racial Competition and Race Suicide. _Francis A. Walker_ 539

C. Economic Competition 1. Changing Forms of Economic Competition. _John B. Clark_ 544 2. Competition and the Natural Harmony of Individual Interests. _Adam Smith_ 550 3. Competition and Freedom. _Frederic Bastiat_ 551 4. Money and Freedom. _Georg Simmel_ 552

III. Investigations and Problems 1. Biological Competition 553 2. Economic Competition 554 3. Competition and Human Ecology 558 4. Competition and the "Inner Enemies": the Defectives, the Dependents, and the Delinquents 559

_Selected Bibliography_ 562 _Topics for Written Themes_ 562 _Questions for Discussion_ 563