Francis Amasa Walker (1840-1897) fought in the Civil War as a Massachusetts volunteer. He was promoted to brigadier general after his release from a Confederate prison. An economist, statistician, journalist, educator, he was superintendent of the U.S. Census and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
3 Электронные книги Francis A. Walker
Francis A. Walker: General Hancock (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) led Union troops into the Battle of Gettsyburg. The author, who served under him during the Civil War, focuses this 1895 life story on Hancock’s leadership at Willi …
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Francis A. Walker: The Wages Question (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
When this 1876 volume was published, the notion that employers owed obligations to their workers was considered a radical idea. Walker, one of the most prominent economists of his time, advocates her …
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Francis A. Walker: Land and Its Rent (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
The author of the influential The Wages Question was often ahead of the economic thinking of his contemporaries. In this 1883 series of Harvard lectures he argues that constriction of the money suppl …
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