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Based on previously published articles, here revised and enlarged with the statistics brought up to date.
Rathenau here argues against socialism and for liberal capitalism on both economic and social grounds.A prominent businessman whose father founded the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft electrical-engineering company, Rathenau became a leading industrialist in the German Empire & early Weimar Republic and is thought to be the basis for the German Industrialist character in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities. Rathenau strongly favored assimilation for German Jews; nonetheless he was hated and caricatured as an archetypal Jewish capitalist by the rabid anti-Semites in Germany. During WWI Rathenau held senior posts in the Raw Materials Department of the War Ministry, as well as becoming chairman of AEG after his father's death in 1915. He played a leading role in putting Germany's economy on a war footing; his efforts enabled Germany to continue its war effort for four years despite acute shortages of labor and raw materials. After the war Rathenau was one of the founders of the German Democratic Party (DDP). A moderate liberal, he rejected the wave of socialist thought that swept over Germany after its defeat in the war. In 1921 he was appointed Minister of Reconstruction, and in 1922 became Foreign Minister. His insistence that Germany should fulfill the terms of the Treaty of Versailles infuriated German nationalists. On June 24, 1922 he was assassinated by two right-wing military officers. [Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Rathenau 6-28-05].
Rogers was Professor of Political Economy in the University of Oxford; and of Economic Science and Statistics at King's College, London.
Contains Maurice Lamontagne's "The Loss of the Steady State"; A. W. Johnson's "New Perspectives for Economic Policy"; Charles Taylor's "THe Politics of the Steady State"; Claude Castonguay's "Social Progress in the World of Tomorrow"; Vivian Rakoff's "Perennial Man and the Slowed Machine"; George Grant's "The Computer Does Not Imposse on Us the Way It Should Be Used."
Contains The international functions of gold: introductory survey, by Sir Josiah Stamp. How do we want gold to behave? by D.H. Robertson. Gold production, by Joseph Kitchin. How to economize gold, by Sir Otto Niemeyer. Some problems of international banking policy, by Dr. M. Palyi. Central bank reserves, by C.H. Kisch. For what objects do central banks hold gold? by the Hon. R.H. Brand. The international consequences of the present distribution of gold holdings, by M. Charles Rist. Appendix: Selected bibliography.
Social reformer and political economist, Sadler proposed in this book a poor law in which "wealth should be compelled to assist destitute poverty" and that such assistance should in all cases save those arising from incapacity or disease be connected with labor (p. 193). An anti-Ricardian with Christian socialist views, Sadler attempted to refute Malthus in his 1830 Law of Population.
An influential book that went into many editions in German, French, and English. A German originally trained in theology, Schäffle became Professor of Political Economy at Tübingen in 1861; briefly Minister of Commerce for Austria in 1871; after which he went to Stuttgart and pursued economics. Whether Schäffle was himself a socialist was a matter of some debate at the time.
Schultz won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Economic.
Schuze-Gävernitz was Professor of National Economics at the University of Freiburg.
Facsimile reprint of one of the 1784 revised editions.
Reprints 16 essays and lectures, including "Bentham and Benthamism"; "The Scope and Method of Economic Science"; "Economic Socialism"; "Political Prophecy and Sociology"; "The Economic Lessons of Socialism"; and "The Relations of Ethics to Sociology."
Sidgwick's principal contribution to the subject and the foundation text for what became known as the Cambridge School of Economics. This posthumous third and final edition essentially reprints the text of the revised second edition, with the addition to chapters 2 & 3 of parts of articles written by Sidgwick for Palgrave.
Smith was Associate Professor of Economics at Princeton.
A Jesuit, Spalding had been Profesor of Ethics and Sociology at University in Chicago, and at Xavier University in Cincinnati; member of the American Sociological Society.Divided into two parts: Social Problems Arising from Present-Day Social & Economic Conditions (with chapters on immigration, Americanization, the housing problem, the cooperative movement, profit-sharing plans, coal miners' unions, the living wage, the eight-hour day, unemployment, the Federal Conciliation Service, labor-union banks, crime & punishment, the narcotic peril); Social Prolems as Solved by Organized Agencies (with chapters on National Catholic Welfare Conference, the St. Vincent De Paul Society, the Red Cross, Social Service Exchange, prevention and control of TB, mental hygiene, the National Health Council, Association for the Blind & Deaf, Immigrant Publication Society, Children's Bureau — Child Labor, Big Brother & Big Sister Federation, Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts of America, Playground & Recreation Association of America).
An expatriot Russian thinker, Spir published a number of works on philosophy, morality, and social science issues. The present work has chapters on egoism & morality, the rights of workers, rights of ownership, etc.
Stone took a degree in econnomics at Cambridge (1935) under the influence of Keynes and, at Keynes's invitation, in 1940 entered the British government's Central Statistical Office. After the war he was appointed the first director of the new department of applied economics at Cambridge, which position he retained until 1955, when he became P. D. Leake Professor of Finance and Accounting there (1955-1980). He was knighted in 1978 and shared the 1984 Nobel Prize for Economics for developing in the 1940s the first concrete statistical means for measuring investment, government spending, and consumption, which resulted in the construction of what was, in essence, the first national bookkeeping system.
Howes S1190; Sabin 94124. Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, Symonds here attempts to refute William Barron's thesis that taxes on the American colonies were justified by the historical precedent that the Greeks, Romans, and Carthaginians had taxed their colonies.
Taussig was Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard. One of the founders of the Harvard School of Business Administration, he served 1917-19 as chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission.
One of the founders of the Harvard School of Business Administration, Taussig served 1917-19 as chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission, edited the Quarterly Review of Economics, and published a number of important economics books and papers.
Thompson was president of the Central High School, Philadelphia.
The greatest theorist of early 19th century co-operative economics, whose ideas were rooted both in Bentham's utilitarianism and Robert Owens's cooperative socialism. In this, his major work, he set forth the principles that he believed should regulate economic life: the free direction of labor, voluntary exchangees, and the use of labor of its entire product.
Titmuss was professor of social administration at the University of London.
Contains introductory chapters by Wenzer on Tolstoy's Russsia and the influence of Henry George on Tolstoy.
Issued as a book-size supplement to the 1843 third edition. These additions were included as a supplement in the 3rd London edition of 1846, with the Appleton issue appearing the same year (called the "Fourth American Edition"). The supplement was not merged into the main text until the 4th London edition of 1853, which apparently was first issued in American by Little, Brown in Boston with '1853' on the title-pages of both volumes, with Appleton's issue of the 4th edition appearing with '1854' on the title-pages. Immensely popular, Ure's dictionary—really more an encyclopedia—saw its 7th and final edition in 1878 under the editorship of Robert Hunt assisted by Frederick William Rudler.
Famed for his brilliantly constructed military fortifications and France's greatest military engineer, Vauban is eqally famous as an economic theorist. In this, his last book, published without licence anonymously and with no date or place of publication, Vauban argued for an extensive reform of the French system of taxation, proposing that all current taxes be scrapped, to be replaced by a 10% tax to be paid by all, albeit with graduated abatements for the less well off down to a minimum of 3.3%.
An important work on the slave trade.
Based on his lectures given at Johns Hopkins University. Walker was Professor of Political Economy and History in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College and Lecturer in Political Economy at Hopkins.
Shaw & Shoemaker 21936; Kress B-5762.
Weir was Secretary of the Tariff Reform Association of 1858 and Government Agent for the Exportation of American Siliver Coin in 1870. Contains chapters on the histor yof the tariff movement, copper and silver currency, the Canadian banking system, land speculation, etc.
Howes W-355. Slater founded the American cotton industry, establishing the first American mill to use Arkwright's spinning system. The first printing was bound with the Secretary of the Treasury's "Letter … on the Cultivation, Manufacture, and Foreign Trade of Cotton."
Useful bibliography with a fair number of brief annotations. Columbia University doctoral dissertation.
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