Evening star., 1901-12-21
TO TALK on ECONOMICS.
American Association to Meet Here
Next Week.

Next week.
The American Economic Association will
hold it's fourteenth annual meeting in this
city Friday. Saturday and Monday. Decem-
Der 81. % and 80. Sessions will be held Fri
day evening, Saturday morning. afternoon
and evening and Monday afternoon and
evening. at the Columbian University. Two
meetings, those of Friday and Monday
| evenings are to be held Jointly with the
American Historical Association. To all of
these sessions the members of both Asso-
Citations. and all other persons interested in
questions concerning economies, political
and social science and history have been
cordially invited. The papers to be read
are limited to thirty minutes each, and
those of the joint sessions to twenty min
utes each. and a general discussion Will
follow each paper. The program is par
ticularly attractive. this year and will
doubtless be followed by Washingtonians
with continued interest.
Among the contributions expected are the
following:
Session of Friday evening" Industrial
Liberty" by Richard Ely, president of the
American Economic Association; An I'm
developed Function, Charles Francis
Adams, president of the American His
torical Association.
Session Of Saturday morning-"The
Meaning of the Recent Expansion of the
Foreign Trade of the United States,'
cussien led by George f. Roberts, direct or
of the mint. and Charles A Conant, WASH
ington correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce: Commercial Policy
of Europe" Worthngton C. Ford, chief of
the department of statistics. Boston Public
Library. with discussion led by Henry C..
Emery, professor of political economy,
Yale University.
Session OF Saturday afternoon-"Some
| Theoretical Possibilities of Protective
Tariff" Thomas \. Carver. assistant pro-
fessor of political economy. Harvard Uni
yerSity. with discussion. led by Guy 5.
Calender. professor of economics and soci-
ology. Bowdoin College. and Maurice II.
Robinson. Instructor in political economy.
Yale University; The Position of the
Workman i'll the Light of Economic Pro-
gress.' Charles A. Tuttle. professor of poilt-
fcal economy, Wabash College, with a dis
cussion led by David Kinley, professor of
economics. University of Illinois, and Saml.
NJ Lindsay, assistant professor of soci-
ology. University of Pennsylvania.
Session of Saturday evening-"The Negro
in the Iazoo Mississippi Delta Alfred Ii
Stone, Greenville. Miss. with discussion
led by l.. G. Powers, chief statistician for
ciliation and Arbitration Among Miners,
Herman JuSti, commissioner, Illinois Coal
Operators Association. with a discussion
led by Carroll d. Wright, commissioner,
United States department of labor.
Session OF Monday afternoon-"Por
Rican Finance; a Comparative Study OF
Spanish and American Systems of Colonial
Finance" Thomas s. Adams, University of
Wisconsin. late of the office of the treas
urer of Porto Rico. with discussion led by
Jacob II. Holander. associate professor of
finance. Johns Hopkins University, treas
urer of Porto Rico report of the committee
on uniform municipal accounts and statis-
tics, Moses n. Baker. chairman. editor En-
sineering News. with a discussion led by
Charles T.. Curtis, vice president of the
City Bank of New Haven. and Roland +.
Falkner, chief of division of documents,
Library of Congress.
Session of Monday evening-"Party Legis-
lation in Parliament, Congress and State
Legislatures" A. Lawrence Howell pro-
fessor of the science of government, Har-
ward University; Historical Materialism
and the Economic Interpretation of His
tory" Edwin r. A. Seligman, professor of
political economy and finance. Columbian
University, with discussion led by Isaac
A. Loos. professor of political science. Uni
Tersity of Iowa, and Frederick ]. Turner
professor of American history, University
of Wisconsin.
The officers of the association are: Pres
ident. Richard T. Ely. LID: ex-presidents,
Francis A. Walker. LID; Charles F. Dun
bar. LID: John B. Clark, LID; Henry
c. Adams, LID; Arthur T. Hadley, LID;
vice presidents Theodore Marburg Fred
NJ. Taylor. PHI. D.: John C. Schwab, Ph.D.;
acting secretary. Frank A. Fetter. Ph.D.
Ithaca, Ny: treasurer, Charles H. Hull
Ph.D., Ithaca, NY.