FRASER Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Postal Laws and Regulations Applicable to the Railway Mail Service: 1915
United StatesFRASERHistorical #data, 1915: Reports on the silk, glass, and ready-made clothing industries are included in "Summary of the Report on Condition of Woman and Child Wage Earners in the United States" from the @BLS_gov https://t.co/n8TtMdq28Q https://t.co/D6486UBQth
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A History Of Modern Banks Of Issue: With An Account Of The Economic Crises Of The Nineteenth Century And The Crisis Of 1907
Charles Arthur ConantFRASERFrom Assyrian systems of commercial implements to the Federal Reserve Act, Charles Conant's 800-page "A History of Modern Banks of Issue" covers early banking history to 1915 https://t.co/cIkjjhLh7g
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Principles of Economics
A. MarshallFRASERAlfred Marshall's Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume, a seminal economics text book, was first published in 1890. This revised edition is from 1920 https://t.co/fWm7L4exoW
Paperback, 2014
$54.99$29.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
History of Wages in the United States from Colonial Times to 1928
Bureau of Labor StatisticsFRASERTake a look at historical wages, prices of commodities, and much more in this Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "History of Wages in the United States From Colonial Times to 1928" https://t.co/FabwAsSikM https://t.co/JsgqwuIckj
Paperback, 2021
$21.30$10.65 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Postal Laws and Regulations Applicable to the Railway Mail Service: 1915...
United StatesFRASERHistorical #data, 1915: Reports on the silk, glass, and ready-made clothing industries are included in "Summary of the Report on Condition of Woman and Child Wage Earners in the United States" from the @BLS_gov https://t.co/n8TtMdq28Q https://t.co/D6486UBQth
Paperback, 2012
$27.75$13.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hollywoodland
Mary MalloryFRASERThe Hollywood sign (originally reading "HOLLYWOODLAND") is dedicated #OTD in 1923. This 1980 issue of the Economic Letter from the @sffed discusses the film industry and other highlights of the Los Angeles economy https://t.co/DSG0HaNNBl
Hardcover, 2011
$31.99$15.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trading with the Enemy ACT: And Amendments Thereto, Together with Proclamations, Executive Orders, and Orders Issued by Frank L. Polk, Acting Secr
United StatesFRASEROctober 19, 1960: The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba under the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917. Read the Act in this 1917 Federal Reserve Bulletin https://t.co/x6cfj4YH1p
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Federal Reserve System: Its Origin and Growth: 1930, Volume 1 - Scholar's Choice Edition
Paul M. WarburgFRASERToday in 1916, Fed Governor Paul Warburg gives a speech on "The Federal Reserve System and the Banks" to the New York State Bankers Association https://t.co/KKuzcv4Mqf
Paperback, 2015
$38.95$19.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Business Cycles: Chapter 2
Wesley Clair MitchellFRASERRead the book that "offers an analytic description of the complicated processes by which seasons of business prosperity, crisis, depression, and revival come about," pioneering economist Wesley Clair Mitchell's "Business Cycles," 1913 https://t.co/09g3fURh2l https://t.co/53QNKSgasL
Paperback, 2012
$14.75$7.38 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Purchasing Power of Money: Its Determination and Relation to Credit Interest and Crises
Irving FisherFRASERIrving Fisher's influential 1920 book "The Purchasing Power of Money" discusses the "quantity theory" of money and its impact on the political discourse of the era #economics https://t.co/P0bz6ndmtv
Hardcover, 2007
$42.99$21.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book