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Excerpt from Publications of the American Economic Association, 1890, Vol. 5 Industrial society is an integral part of the social organism, and its evolution is necessarily determined by those conditions which determine the evolution of society as a whole. In the course of European history many diverse phases of industry present themselves, but these always appear in strict harmony with the period of history to which they belong. In the devel...

Excerpt from The American Economic Review, Vol. 12 At our entry into the war the opportunity would thus seem to have been present for the exercise of a large in¿uence upon affairs. The course of the struggle had made it evident that eventually the race must be to the economically strongest, and the experiences of the belligerents had shown the penalty of economic bungling. In the physical sciences there was swift mobilization and quick tende...

Excerpt from The Federal Census: Critical Essays by Members of the American Economic Association The Committee determined to undertake a review of the eleventh census, and for this purpose it invited various members of the Association and others to cooper ate by preparing critical articles on particular portions of the census. In order to extend this coéiperation still fur ther, and especially to discover what might seem weak points in the el...

Excerpt from Economic Studies, Vol. 3 The Relation of the Teaching of Economic History to the Teaching of Political Economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repa...

Excerpt from Publications of the American Economic Association, Vol. 3 America has no counterpart to the continental school of statisticians, whose members have entered their particular field of science after special training by a systematic course of instruction. We have our statisticians, to be sure, but the have taken up their work accidentally, and not as a profession. Men engaged in the practice of law or of medicine, or in the other lea...

Excerpt from Bulletin: American Home Economics Association Notice is given of the annual election of oflScers of the American Home Economics Association. Members are requested to send immediately suggestions of nominations for the various ofl cers to the undersigned Committee on Nominations, which will then, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, submit a list of nominations to the members. These suggestions should be sent, o...

Excerpt from Handbook of the American Economic AssociationFive years of steady growth. In usefulness and public favor has proved the wisdom of the forma tion of the American Economic Association, by showing that the want it was designed to meet was a real one.The Association was organized on the 9th of September, 1885, at Saratoga, for two well defined, yet closely connected purposes. These were: first, the scientific study of social and econo...

Excerpt from Papers and Discussions of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, December, 1910 The quarter of a century which has elapsed since that time has seen a great change in the standing of the professional economist. I think it is not too much to say that the voice of the student of economics as such is today more potent in the United States in the discussion and decision of public questions than it has ever been before. ...

Excerpt from The American Economic Review, Vol. 2: Index to the Publications of the American Economic Association, 1886-1910, December, 1917 Hadley, A. T., The Relation between Economics and Politics (president's address), Econ. Stud, iv, 7 (1899, no. Discussion by E. R. A. Seligman, John R. Commons, A. T. Hadley, Econ. Stud, iv, Sup., 108. Economic Theory and Political Morality (president's address), Se ries 111, i, 45 Discussion by J. R. C...

Excerpt from Economic Studies, Vol. 1: 1896During the eleven years of its existence the American Economic Association has adhered closely to its original purpose of encouraging the scientific study Of economic and social problems, and Of diffusing knowledge regard ing them. In its ten annual volumes of monographs will be found much of the newest thought of the lead ing economists Of the country on the important questions Of the day, as well as...

Excerpt from Publications of the American Economic Association, 1887, Vol. 1One aim of our association should be the education of pub lic Opinion in regard to economic questions and economic liter ature. In no other science is there so much quackery and it must be our province to expose it and bring it into merited contempt. A review at each of our meetings of the economic works of the past year, if published in our proceedings, might help in ...