Nearly 85 years ago, Wesley Clair Mitchell, the acknowledged leader of American economists during the first half of this century, wrote: "Important as the art of spending is, we have developed less skill in its practice than in the practice of making money

Wesley Clair Mitchell, Eli Ginzberg

The Backward Art of Spending Money and Other Essays; 1: The Backward Art of Spending Money 1; 2: Quantitative Analysis in Economic Theory 1; 3: Statistics and Government 1; 4: Institutes for Research in The Social Sciences 1; 5: Research in The Social Sciences 1; 6: The Social Sciences and National Planning 1; 7: Intelligence and The Guidance of Economic Evolution 1; 8: Making Goods and Making Money 1; 9: The Role of Money in Economic Theory 1; 10: Bentham's Felicific Calculus 1; 11: Postulates and Preconceptions of Ricardian Economics 1; 12: Wieser's Theory of Social Economics 1; 13: Sombart's Hochkapitalismus 1; 14: Thorstein Veblen 1; 15: Commons on Institutional Economics 1; 16: The Prospects of Economics 1; 17: Economics 1904-1929 1; 18: Business Cycles