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Outlines of Economics
By Richard T. Ely, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin; Thomas S. Adams, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy at Yale University; Max O. Lorenz, Associate Statistician of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Professor A. A. Young of Cornell.
Third Revised Edition, Cloth, 8vo, $2.25
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