Author: American Economic Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11

Total Pages: 1012

ISBN-13: 9781528430814

Excerpt from Papers and Discussion of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, N. J., December 28-31, 1908: April, 1909 There are writers whose work deserves commendation, and yet the art of popularizing is SO prominent that the fuller view of the earlier epoch is lost Sight Of in the struggle for immediate results. A theoretic writer can no longer gain through his work the commanding place that would have been given him even a dozen years ago. Not only has he in this way lost prestige, but his work is more impersonal that it was, SO much more so in fact that he scarcely ever derives personal advantage from it. The popular speaker and writer are quoted everywhere, and thus gain a name on which position and income de pend. The theorist, however, finds few readers, and his contrasts when fresh and striking are appropriated by popular writers without credit. A man who worked for years on an important topic finally brought out a book that set Off his thought by a brilliant contrast that really contained its essence. When this was first used by an editorial writer he gave full credit. Soon editorials by. 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.