"The materials collected in this volume are intended to acquaint the student with economic principles as they are manifested in the tangible facts of economic life. A few extracts of primarily theoretical character have been included to represent important aspects of contemporary or historic thought; but for the most part the selections are not so much authoritative formulations of economic laws as concrete case-material embodying such laws, or affording a background of information which the systematic treatises on economics can hardly give and which the teacher certainly cannot often assume that his students will possess."
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James A. Field, Leon C. Marshall and Chester W. Wright. Materials For the Study of Elementary Economics, University of Chicago Press, 1913. Preface
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Chester W. Wright
1879 – 1966
Chester Whitney Wright (1879 - 1966) was an American economic historian, and Professor at the , known from his works on the economic history of the United States.
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