Practical economics
Subtitle: a collection of essays respecting certain of the recent economic experiences of the United States
By: by David A. Wells ...
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1885
Place of publication: New York &; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Economics; Economic policy
Notes: "The essays .. in this volume--with three exceptions--were originally contributed to and published in the Atlantic magazine, the Princeton review, the Nation, and the N. Y. world ... from 1872 to 1884."
Table of contents: title: A modern financial Utopia.; title: The true story of the leaden statuary.; title: The silver question.; title: Are gold and silver indispensable as measures of value?; title: Tariff revision: its necessity and possible methods.; title: The most recent phases of the tariff question.; title: The "foreign competitive pauper-labor" argument for protection.; title: Our experience in taxing distilled spirits.; title: Influence of the production and distribution of wealth on social development.