Economics, sociology & the modern world
Subtitle: essays in honor of T. N. Carver
By: edited by Norman E. Himes ...
Contributors: Himes, Norman Edwin, 1899-1949.
Publisher: Harvard university press
Published: 1935
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Carver, Thomas Nixon, -- 1865-1961.; Economics.; Sociology.; Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Notes: This volume consisting of eithteen papers by former students Professor T. N. Carver, for thirty year (1902-1932) professor of political economy in Harvard university, is published inthe occasion of his seventieth bithday (1865-1935)."

Edition limited to 500 hand-numbered copies, of which 375 are for sale."
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Agricultural economics : Agricultural fundamentalism, by J. S. Davis. The Canadian wheat pool in prosperity and depression, by H. S. Patton. Overhead costs in agriculture : a problem in social control, by R. S. Vaile. The objectives of economic control by E. J. Working.; title: pt. 2. Economic theory and history : Theoretical aspects of the scale of production, by M. M. Bober. Interest in work : some research problems, methods and results, by Z. C. Dickinson. The mercantilism of Gerónimo de Uztáriz : a reexamination by E. J. Hamilton. Pioneer life in western Kansas, by John Ise. On the chemical phase of the industrial revolution, by T. J. Kreps. Some propositions on interest, by R. S. Meriam. Some aspects of the theory of rent : von Thünen vs. Ricardo, by Bertil Ohlin. The nature of our program for national economic recovery, by C. J. Ratziaff. Business cycles, by J. P. Wernette. The rationalization of production and of reproduction, by A. B. Wolfe. Bibliography (p. 243-244).; title: pt. 3. Sociology : Socialism in theory and practice, by F. A. Bushee. Migration between city and country in the Buffalo metropolitan area, by Niles Carpenter. Cultural compulsives : the survival of dogma in the sciences, by W. H. Crook. New light on the causes of the declining birth rate, by N. E. Himes.