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The New Institute of World Affairs
" To contribute to a diagnosis of the present state of world affairs will be the primary task of the new Institute of World Affairs, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York. "
Category: Economics
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The Trend in World Economies
" Public discussion of the economic future of the world is in full swing. "
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Private Enterprise in Education
" The private institutions of higher education in the United States and the business men who have traditionally supported them... "
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The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen
" One hundred and twenty-five years had now passed since The Wealth of Nations appeared in 1776... "
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Rationality and Ideology in Economics
" Robert Heilbroner has had a long-standing interest in the issues of rationality and ideology in shaping economic theory... "
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The Evolution of the Consumer
" In the beginning, on the sixth day of His work, God created man-as a consumer. "
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The Orientation of Agricultural Economics
" When I chose this subject I had no ambition to shoulder the burden of a critical survey of argicultural economics today - 45 years after the founding of our Association. "
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The Subsidy and Housing
" The subsidy is only a single aspect of housing policy; yet the form it ultimately takes will influence more than the housing program alone. "
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
" The following pages are frankly fragmentary. They are designed to suggest new lines of historical research rather than to treat the subject in an exhaustive fashion. "
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Alvin Johnson
Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School. Alvin Johnson was born near Homer, Nebraska. He was educated at the University of Nebraska and Columbia (Ph.D., 1902). Afterwards, he was employed in various positions at Columbia, the University of […]