This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the 17th century through to 1900.
VOLUME II The Battle of the 'Schools' in the 1880s Part I. The Emergence of Competing 'Schools' of Political Economy Richard T. Ely, The Past and The Present of Political Economy (1884) Simon Newcomb, The Two Schools or Political Economy' (1884) Discussions of the Nature and Condition of Political Economy in Science (April- July 1886) Edwin R. A Seligman, 'Change in the Tenets of Political Economy with Time' (Aptil1886) Edmund J. James, The State as an Economic Factor' (May 1886) Frank W. Taussig and Edmund J. James, 'Comment on James' and James's 'Reply' (May 1886) Richard T. Ely, 'Ethics and Economics' (June 1886) Simon Newcomb, 'Aspects of the Economic Discussion' (June 1886) Richard T. Ely, The Economic Discussion in SCIENCE (July 1886) Simon Newcomb, 'Can Economists Agree Upon the Basis for Their Teachings?' (July 1886) Richard T. Ely, Report of the Organization of the American Economic Association (1886) John Bates Clark, The Philosophy of Wealth. Economic Principles Newly Formulated ([1885]1886) Part ll. Divergent Perspectives on the Labour Movement; Richard T. Ely, The Labor Movement in America (1886) Simon Newcomb, A Plain Man's Talk on the Labor Question (1886) Part III. Further Contributions to Discourse on Contemporary Issues’ Edmund J. James, The Relation of the Modern Municipality to the Gas Supply (1886) Henry Carter Adams, Relation of the State to Industrial Action (1887) Arthur T. Hadley, Railroad Transportation: Its History and Its Laws ([1885]1886) Part IV. Noteworthy Contributions in Textbooks; Francis Amasa Walker, Political Economy ([1887]1888) Simon Newcomb, Principles of Political Economy (1885)
