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

Political Economy, Harvard University
TRADE UNIONISM AND LABOR

PROBLEMS (Second Series)
By John R. Commons, Professor of Political

Economy, University of Wisconsin
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

Economics, Harvard University
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

STATES. 1765-1860
By Guy Stevens Callender, late Professor of

Political Economy, Yale University
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

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