Author: American Economic Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9780265192139

Excerpt from Handbook of the American Economic Association Five years of steady growth. In usefulness and public favor has proved the wisdom of the forma tion of the American Economic Association, by showing that the want it was designed to meet was a real one. The Association was organized on the 9th of September, 1885, at Saratoga, for two well defined, yet closely connected purposes. These were: first, the scientific study of social and economic prob lems; and, second, the diffusion of knowledge with regard to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.