This book analyzes US immigration policies. The US was open to immigrants from all over the world without restriction for the first 100 years of its national existence; first in 1924, and then again in 1965, immigration policies restricted the number of immigrants allowed to enter. The first group...

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 --...