William Orton

Biographic Data

ID3605235
NAMEWilliam Orton
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMEOrton
SIGNATUREORTON W
AFFILIATIONSSmith College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1922
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1950
H-INDEX1

  • The Economic Role of the State

    Melvin Anshen, William Orton et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1950

  • The Economic Role of the State

    Joseph L Kerins, William Orton et al.ARTICLEThe American Catholic Sociological…1950

  • The Liberal Tradition: A Study of The Social and Spiritual Conditions of Freedom

    Stanley Pargellis, William Orton et al.ARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1946

    The Liberal Tradition: A Study of The Social and Spiritual Conditions of Freedom. By William Aylott Orton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. xiv + 312 pp. Index. $3.50.) Get access Stanley Pargellis Stanley Pargellis The Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 33, Issue 2, September 1946, Pages 319–321, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895110 Published: 01 Septem…

  • The Liberal Tradition

    Arthur E Murphy, Arthur Ε Murphy et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1946

  • The Liberal Tradition

    Harry Elmer Barnes, William Orton et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1946

  • Business as a System of Power

    William Orton, William A Orton et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1944

  • Postwar Economic Problems

    William Orton, E Harris et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1943Cited by: 10

  • The Legacy of Nazism

    William Orton, Frank Munk et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1943

  • Social Goals and Economic Institutions

    William Orton, Frank D GrahamARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1943

  • The Social Policy of Nazi Germany

    William Orton, C W GuillebaudARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1942Cited by: 1

  • The Recovery Problem in the United States

    William OrtonARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1938

  • The Labor Spy Racket

    William Orton, Leo Huberman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1938

  • America in Search of Culture

    Ray Palmer Baker, William Orton et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1934

  • Groping for Recovery

    William Orton, William A OrtonARTICLECurrent History1933

    Essay| December 01 1933 Groping for Recovery William A. Orton William A. Orton Formerly an intelligence staff officer in the British Army and an official of the British Ministry of Labor, the writer of the following article has been Professor of Economics at Smith College since 1922. His most recent book is America in Search of Culture, published by Little, Brown & Co. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Curr…

  • The Atomic Theory of Society

    Open AccessWilliam OrtonARTICLEAmerican Political Science Review1930

    In few affairs is political wisdom so put to the test as in the treatment of institutions that are growing old. Age in these cases has little to do with mere antiquity: the forms of social life are subject to no set term of years. It is a matter of continuing adaptability. Some institutions, like the British monarchy, possess this attribute in an astounding degree. Others, like the House of Lords, betray a hardening of the arteries that bodes ill…

  • Valuation Theory as Applied to United States Railroads

    William OrtonARTICLEThe Economic Journal1929

  • Social Theory and the Principium Unitatis

    Open AccessWilliam OrtonARTICLEAmerican Political Science Review1927References: 1

    Complex as is the immediate situation of social theory, a general view reveals some significant continuities, both spatial and temporal. The attitude of the pluralists, whether in theory or in practice, to the sovereign nation-state has more common ground than at first appears with that of the states themselves toward the nascent organs of international government; and the dilemma underlying both controversies is in fact nothing less than a resta…

  • News and Opinion

    William OrtonARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1927

    The development of the mechanical factor in newspaper production has altered both the econimic and the Ideological relations centering about the newspaper; but the quantitative expansion has not resulted in corresponding contribution toward an informed public opinion. This factor, however, remains an essential desideratum in modern politics, and is frequently decisive, for better or worse, on capital issues, especially those of an international c…

  • The Background of Locarno

    William Orton, Herbert Kraus et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1926

  • The Position of the British Labor Party

    William OrtonARTICLESocial Forces1925

  • Labour in Transition: A Survey of British Industrial History since 1914

    N B Dearle, William Orton et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1922