MITCHELL, Wesley Clair.
Gold, prices, and wages under the greenback standard. Berkeley, University Press, 1908.
4to, pp. [14], 627, [1 blank]; a very good copy in the original green cloth, slightly marked and rubbed; folding charts, printed tables within text; bookplate of Karl Adams Dietrich, his ownership inscription dated Ann Arbor, MI, 1920, and inkstamps to front and rear.
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Gold, prices, and wages under the greenback standard.
First edition, rare in commerce, a statistical essay in continuation of A history of the greenbacks (1903). Statistical analysis was a significant part of Mitchell’s early work, of which this is the weighty apotheosis, both intellectually, and physically (this is a heavy book). Taken from censuses, Mitchell’s data covers a period of twenty years, 1860-1880, and includes rates of wages measured for each industry and the prices of greenbacks measured week by week.