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Online Library of Liberty: Economics, vol. 2: Modern Economic Problems
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Economics, vol. 2: Modern Economic Problems, 2nd edition, revised (New York: The Century Co., 1923).
Author: Frank A. Fetter
About This Title:
Vol. 2 of Fetter’s 2 volume survey of economics written while he was a professor at Princeton University. In this volume he deals the following problems: money and princes, banking and insurance, tariffs and taxation, wages and labor,regulation of industry, and socialism.
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Online Library of Liberty: Economics, vol. 2: Modern Economic Problems
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Online Library of Liberty: Economics, vol. 2: Modern Economic Problems
Table Of Contents
Foreword to the Revised Edition. Modern Economic Problems Part I: Money and Prices
Chapter 1: Nature of Economic Problems
Chapter 2: Origin and Nature of Money
Chapter 3: Commodity Money and the Quantity Theory Chapter 4: Fiduciary Money, Metal and Paper
Chapter 5: Price Levels and the Gold Standard Chapter 6: Rising Prices and the Standard Part II: Banking and Insurance
Chapter 7: The Functions of Banks
Chapter 8: Banking In the United States Before 1914 Chapter 9: The Federal Reserve Act
Chapter 10: Crises and Industrial Depressions Chapter 11: Institutions For Saving and Investment Chapter 12: Principles of Insurance
Chapter 13: Scientific Life Insurance Part III: Tariff and Taxation Chapter 14: American Tariff History Chapter 15: International Trade
Chapter 16: The Policy of a Protective Tariff Chapter 17: Objects and Principles of Taxation Chapter 18: Property and Corporation Taxes Chapter 19: Personal Taxes
Part IV: Wages and Labor
Chapter 20: Methods of Industrial Remuneration Chapter 21: Organized Labor
Chapter 22: Public Regulation of Hours and Wages Chapter 23: Other Protective Labor and Social Legislation Chapter 24: Social Insurance
Chapter 25: Population and Immigration
Part V: Public Policy Toward Private Industry Chapter 26: Agricultural and Rural Population Chapter 27: Problems of Agricultural Economics Chapter 28: The Transportation Problem Chapter 29: Railroad Regulation
Chapter 30: The Problem of Industrial Monopoly Chapter 31: Public Policy In Respect to Monopoly Part VI: Private Property Versus Socialism Chapter 32: The Present Economic System Chapter 33: Public Ownership
Chapter 34: Methods of Distribution Chapter 35: Socialism, Present and Future
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