Facts and Factors in Economic History: Articles by Former Students

x, 757 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; The Importance of Economic History; The Economics of Population in Ancient Greece; The Influence of Economic Environment on the Development of Public Revenues in England; The Consent of the English Lower Clergy to Taxation, 1166-1216; The First Benevolence; English Public Finance and the National State in the Sixteenth Century; Aspects of Elizabethan Apprenticeship; Medieval Spanish Guilds; Spanish Ships and Shipping in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Spanish Mercantilism Before 1700; The General Board of Health, 1848-1854; The Diplomacy of Richard Corbden in His Commercial Negotiations with France; Bata, Chief Figure in the World's Shoe Industry; The Organization of the Textile Industries in Japan; The British North American Provinces Before Confederation--Trade and Tariffs; Some Recent Economic Changes in Canada; American Materialism: An Economist's Interpretation; The Rise of the Factory in the American Carpet Manufacture; Pioneer Banking in Alabama; Factors in the Early Pittsburgh Iron Industry; Economic Beginnings of the Boston and Albany Railroad, 1831-1867; Free Trade and the Oregon Questions, 1842-1846; Some Economic Aspects of the Light and Power Industry; Some Intimate History from the Last Years of a Seventy-Four Year Old Business; American Politics at the Crossroads; The Evolution of Reparation Ideas; Types of Capitalism; The Managerial Factor in Marketing; Demand as a Factor in the Industrial Revolution; Applied Economic History: Some Relations Between Economic History and Modern Business Management; The Effect of Scientific Inventions Upon Economic Trends; Some Historical Aspects of Labor Turnover; Technological Unemployment; The Spector of Dearth of Food: History's Answer to Sir William Crookes. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edwin Francis Gay (October 27, 1867 – February 8, 1946) was an American economist, Professor of Economic History and first Dean of the Harvard Business School.