1889 Report of the Proceedings of the American Economic Association Third Annual Meeting

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Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Scarce work. A report of the third annual meeting of the American Economic Association. With addresses by Dr. William Pepper and General F. A. Walker, an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and an officer in the Union Army. Compiled by the secretary, Richard T. Ely, an American economist, author, and leader of the Progressive movement who called for more government intervention to reform what they perceived as the injustices of capitalism, especially regarding factory conditions, compulsory education, child labor, and labor unions. Ely is best remembered as a founder and the first Secretary of the American Economic Association.