1871

• Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
  Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
  Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play , was a French engineer, sociologist, and economist.-Life:...
  
  's Le Organisation de Famille is published.
• Carl Menger
  Carl Menger
  Carl Menger was the founder of the Austrian School of economics, famous for contributing to the development of the theory of marginal utility, which contested the cost-of-production theories of value, developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo.- Biography :Menger...
  
  's Principles of Economics
  Principles of Economics
  Principles of Economics is a book by economist Carl Menger which is credited with the founding of the Austrian School of economics...
  
  is published.
• Lewis Henry Morgan's Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family is published.
• Sir Edward Burnett Tylor's In Primitive Culture is published.

1874

• Francis Galton
  Francis Galton
  Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
  
  's English men of science : their nature and nurture is published.
• Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play
  Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
  Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play , was a French engineer, sociologist, and economist.-Life:...
  
  's La réforme sociale en France déduite de l’observation comparée des peuples Européens is published.
• Henry Sidgwick
  Henry Sidgwick
  Henry Sidgwick was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, a member of the Metaphysical Society, and promoted the higher education of women...
  
  's The Method of Ethics is published.

1875

• Francis Galton
  Francis Galton
  Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
  
  's Statistics by intercomparison, with remarks on the law of frequency of error is published.
• Frederic Harrison
  Frederic Harrison
  Frederic Harrison was a British jurist and historian.Born at 17 Euston Square, London, he was the son of Frederick Harrison, a stockbroker and his wife Jane, daughter of Alexander Brice, a Belfast granite merchant. He was baptised at St...
  
  's Order and Progress is published.