The Development of the National Economy Vol 4: The United States from the Civil War Through the 1890s

VOLUME IV Perspectives on Applied Topics and Forward Trajectories Part I. Perspectives on Applied Topics Edwin R. A. Seligman, Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice (1894) Frank W. Taussig, ‘The Tariff Act of 1894’ (1894) Jeremiah W. Jenks, ‘Capitalist Monopolies and Their Relation to the State’ (1894) ‘The Question Of Trusts: How Much Public Control is Possible and Necessary?’ (1897) Carroll D. Wright, The Chicago Strike (1894) 1Francis Amasa Walker, ‘Restriction of Immigration’ (1896) William Graham Sumner, ‘The Conquest of the United States by Spain’(1899) Part II: Forward Trajectories; John Bates Clark, ‘How the Specific Product of Labor May Be Distinguished’ (1899) Simon Nelson Patten, The Economic Basis of Protection (1890) Index

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