GOLD, PRICES, AND WAGES UNDER THE GREENBACK STANDARD
Berkeley: The University Press, 1908. First Edition. Large octavo; xv, 627 pages; VG; full black publisher's cloth binding with silver titling to spine; mild shelfwear to covers; some foxing to the head of textblock, all edges deckled; all 12 fold-out graphs present and intact; shelved case 10.
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Price: $300
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Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948) was an American economist best known for founding the New School for Social Research in 1919 and the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1920, the latter of which he served as director of until 1945. "Gold, Prices, and Wages under the Greenback Standard" is the follow-up to his thesis "A History of the Greenbacks." After completing his PhD at the University of Chicago, he taught there, then at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard, and Columbia. He served in a number of influential positions, including as president of the American Economic Association. His wife, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, founded the Bank Street College of Education.