SELECTIONS AND DOCUMENTS IN ECONOMICS EDITED BY WILLIAM Z. RIPLEY, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY SELECTIONS AND DOCUMENTS IN ECONOMICS TRUSTS, POOLS AND CORPORATIONS (Revised Edition) By William Z. Ripley, Ph.D., Professor of TRADE UNIONISM AND LABOR By John R. Commons, Professor of Political SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS By Thomas N. Carver, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University SELECTED READINGS IN PUBLIC FINANCE (Second Edition) By Charles J. Bullock, Ph.D., Professor of RAILWAY PROBLEMS (Revised Edition) By William Z. Ripley, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University SELECTED READINGS IN ECONOMICS By Charles J. Bullock, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Harvard University ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED By Guy Stevens Callender, late Professor of SELECTED READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS By Thomas N. Carver, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University READINGS IN SOCIAL PROBLEMS By Albert Benedict Wolfe, Professor of Economics, University of Texas COPYRIGHT, 1907 BY CHARLES J. BULLOCK ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 521.1 The Athenæum Press PREFACE This volume aims to supply the collateral reading needed for a general course of study in economics. It makes no effort to present selections upon all the topics treated in such a course, but endeavors merely to provide supplementary material, historical, descriptive, and theoretical, which will enrich the instruction offered. The footnotes to the several selections disclose the extent of the editor's indebtedness to various authors who have consented to the reproduction of passages from their works. In this place, however, acknowledgment should be made of the helpful advice and criticism received from the editor's colleague, Professor F. W. Taussig, of Harvard University. CHARLES J. BULLOCK |