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October 30, Sol Tax

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On October 30, 1907, Sol Tax was born. Tax, an important anthropologist at the University of Chicago, organized a four-​day conference on military conscription, which was the start of an intellectual movement that led to the end of the draft less than seven years later. Tax’s most famous work was probably his study of a Guatemalen Indian economy, “Penny Capitalism.”

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