Chapter VIII: Competition

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 Bücher_ 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. _Frédéric 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