The Development of the National Economy Vol 1: The United States from the Civil War Through the 1890s

VOLUME I Fresh Realities, Novel Approaches: From the Civil War to the Early 1880s General Introduction, The Development of the National Economy, 1865–1900 Note on Copy-Texts Part I. Responses to New Realities; David A. Wells, Our Burden and Our Strength (1864) Simon Newcomb, ‘Were the Legal Tender Notes Necessary?’ (1865) Henry C. Carey, Contraction or Expansion? Repudiation or Resumption? (1866) David A. Wells, Report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue, for the Year 1868 (1869) Henry Carey Baird, The Rights of American Producers, and the Wrongs of British-Free-Trade Revenue-Reform (1872) Part II. Post-Bellum Textbook Offerings; Amasa Walker, The Science of Wealth: A Manual of Political Economy (1872) Arthur Latham Perry, Elements of Political Economy ([1866] 1878) Francis Bowen, American Political Economy (1870) Part III. Approaches to New Problems Charles Francis Adams, ‘Railway Commissions’ (1870); Railroads: Their Origin and Problems (1878) Henry Demarest Lloyd, ‘Story of a Great Monopoly’ (1881) Henry George, Progress and Poverty ([1879] 1979) William Graham Sumner, ‘What Social Classes Owe to Each Other’ (1883) Part IV. An Appraisal of the State of the Art at the Time of the Nation’s Centennial; Charles F. Dunbar, ‘Economic Science in America, 1776–1876’ (1876)

This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the 17th century through to 1900