The backward art of spending money / Wesley Clair Mitchell ; with a new preface, introduction, and afterword by Eli Ginzberg
- Author:
- Mitchell, Wesley C. (Wesley Clair), 1874-1948
- Published:
- London : Routledge, 2017.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 453 pages)
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- Contents:
- part, The Backward Art of Spending Money and Other Essays / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 1 The Backward Art of Spending Money 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 2 Quantitative Analysis in Economic Theory 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 3 Statistics and Government 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 4 Institutes for Research in The Social Sciences 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 5 Research in The Social Sciences 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 6 The Social Sciences and National Planning 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 7 Intelligence and The Guidance of Economic Evolution 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 8 Making Goods and Making Money 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 9 The Role of Money in Economic Theory 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 10 Bentham's Felicific Calculus 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 11 Postulates and Preconceptions of Ricardian Economics 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 12 Wieser's Theory of Social Economics 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 13 Sombart's Hochkapitalismus 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 14 Thorstein Veblen 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 15 Commons on Institutional Economics 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 16 The Prospects of Economics 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 17 Economics 1904-1929 1 / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli -- chapter 18 Business Cycles / Wesley Clair Mitchell Ginzberg Eli.
- Summary:
- "Nearly 85 years ago, Wesley Clair Mitchell, the acknowledged leader of American economists during the first half of this century, wrote: "Important as the art of spending is, we have developed less skill in its practice than in the practice of making money. Common sense forbids our wasting dollars earned by irksome efforts; and yet we are notoriously extravagant. Ignorance of qualities, uncertainty of taste, lack of accounting, carelessness about prices. Many of us scarcely know what becomes of our money."More than ever, in our world of ever-increasing credit card debt, lenient bankruptcy laws, and runaway consumption, these words still ring true. This collection of Mitchell's essays, makes it easier for today's and tomorrow's economists and social scientists to become acquainted with Mitchell's many contributions to the study of the American economy.Regrettably, the passage of time can blur and even obliterate the reputation and achievements of yesterday's leaders of ideas and actions. Although the National Bureau of Economic Research, which Mitchell helped to found and which he led in the 1920s and 1930s, remains a leading research institution, relatively few of its associates, who represent the elite among U.S. academic economists, have any first-hand acquaintance with Mitchell's work. Eli Ginzberg rounds out this edition with Mitchell's comprehensive analysis of "Business Cycles," first published in 1929, an area that commanded most of his scholarly efforts. Ginzberg's essay on Mitchell, written in 1931 and published for the first time in 1997, serves as an appropriate introduction to this new edition. His afterword contains remarks delivered at the 50th anniversary of Mitchell's death at the meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association held in Chicago early in 1998, a telling tribute to this undisputed giant in the field.Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948) held major teaching posts at the University of California and Columbia University. One of the most eminent U.S. economists, Mitchell focused much of his research on the statistical investigation of business cycles. His two major works are Business Cycles (1913) and Business Cycles: The Problem at its Setting, (1927).Eli Ginzberg is A. Barton Hepburn Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Business, and Director of the Eisenhower Center for the Conservation of Human Resources at Columbia University."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781351305495 (e-book: Mobi)
9781351305525 (e-book : PDF)
9780765806116 (paperback)
9781138534377 (hardback)
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