Edwin Seligman's lectures on public finance, 1927-1928 / Luca Fiorito, Marianne Johnson, Warren J. Samuels -- General considerations / History of public credit -- Finance and the science of finance : public finance and fiscal science -- History of the budget -- Historical development of public...

Henry C. Carey : first American economist -- The English classical school in the United States -- Epigones -- Economic thought in the south -- The new life in American economics -- Introductory -- Francis A. Walker -- Two philosophical economists : Simon N. Patten and John Bates Clark --...

Over the last forty years, rising national income has helped reduce poverty rates, but this has been accompanied by an increase in economic inequality. While these trends are largely attributed to technological change and demographic shifts, such as changing birth rates, labor force patterns,...