Economics for the Power Age: A Statement of First Principles

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NIARING has been a student,

teacher, observer, lecturer, and writer on economics since 1898. A Pennsylvanian by birth, he was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University, and taught at the former

for nearly ten years, until 1915 when he was forced to resign in a famous academic-freedom of academic intolerance, and also had the distinction of being one of the first persons expelled from the U. S. Communist party, this occurring in 1929 over case. He had other experiences

differences on the theory of imperialism. Finding most doors closed to him, he determined to go it alone, and for more than thirty years has devotcrl

himself to his writing and lecturing and to farrrr-

ing. He and his wife have recently sold tht: sugnr' bush in Vermont on which they supporlr:rl lhcrrrselves for fifteen years, and now live in Mairr,'. llr' is the author of some forty books on ct:orronrir', political, and social topics, and, with his rlif,', ,'l Th.e Mapl'e Sugar Book.

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Economics

for the Power Ag* A STATEMENT OF FIRST PRINCIPLES

THE JOHN DAY COMPANY NEW YORK, 1952

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