Word: economist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor F. H. Dixon of Dartmouth College, an economist who has made a specialty of transportation problems, will speak on "The New Interstate Commerce Act" in the Fogg Lecture Room at 8 o'clock tonight. The lecture will be open to the public...
...order to promote good comradeship and make the afternoon pleasant for men who stay in Cambridge over Sunday. Other plans under consideration, are a course of lectures dealing with social service from various points of view,--for example, from the point of view of the settlement worker, the economist, the sociologist, etc; and a Phillips Brooks House fellowship in social service, similar in general plan to the South End House Fellowship and the Robert Treat Paine Fellowship administered by the University...
...worked so deeply into our hearts that we are asking if we have not been selfish. Ought we not to extend our religious thought to others? With such an idea we will come to the thought that Christ is the friend of the workingman, the politician and the economist, in helping them to solve present problems. So with denominational differences. If discordant sects could get Christ's spirit, their differences would vanish...
Professor F. Y. Edgeworth delivered the second of his lectures yesterday evening on "The Exceptions to the Rule of Free Trade." Though the presumption is always against protection, he said, reliable economists have discussed several important exceptions to the rule of free trade. The first of these, protection for the sake of defense, must be settled largely by military experts, but the economist may insist that economic effects, such as the diversion of capital to less productive industries, be carefully considered. Protection to counteract foreign bounties, which constitutes the second exception, is apt to be carried too far, and protection...
...most complete tables for tracing the courses of prices are those of the London "Economist," Sauerbeck's Reports, and of the United States Senate. In all these tables index numbers are used to condense the results into a relative statement. The "Economist" makes use of the quotations on twenty-two articles, and uses as its standard of comparison the average prices between 1845 and 1850. The great objection to the method of the "Economist" is, that in considering the twenty-two articles it gives equal weight to commodities which are very unequal in importance as, for instance, wheat and indigo...