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WALKER'S DISCUSSIONS IN ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS By the late General
FRANCIS A. WALKER. Edited by Prof. DAVIS R. DEWEY.
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_AN IMPORTANT WORK BY THE LATE_
FRANCIS A. WALKER
_President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor of
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DISCUSSIONS IN ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
Edited by Professor DAVIS R. DEWEY.
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VOL. I. Finance and Taxation, Money and Bimetallism, Economic Theory.
VOL. II. Statistics, National Growth, Social Economics.
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