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The Theory of Interest as Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest It

Few American economists have exerted an international influence equal to that of Yale professor Irving Fisher (1867-1947) who excelled as a statistician, econometrician, mathematician, and pure theorist. Of his 18 published volumes on economics, those in monetary economics constitute his most enduring contribution; indeed much of Fisher’s work on capital, interest, income, money, prices and …

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Eugenics (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Eugenics Eugenics is simply an application of modern science to im prove the human race. But, says the skeptic, that will take millions of years! Nevertheless, I reassert that it is easily practical to alter and improve the human race and to do so in a very short time. About the Publisher Forgotten …

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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, …

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Precedents for Defining Capital

Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir …

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By the Bay 2: More East Beach Stories

The East Beach writers are at it again, this time offering 14 new fictional tales about life along the Chesapeake Bay. The neighborhood of East Beach in Norfolk, Virginia is the setting for these vignettes of family, friendship, mystery, history, adventure, love, and light-hearted fun. Join the characters as they walk the tree-lined streets, stroll …

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Political Enonomy of Tomorrow

Since the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the future of capitalism remains a hotly debated subject. Tracing the path of the American and global economy over the twentieth century, The Political Economy of Tomorrow shows that the most significant problems of the economic system arise not from capitalism’s weaknesses, but its strengths. Picking up where journalist …

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Constitution or Form of Government for the People of Florida: As Revised and Amended at a Convention of the People Begun and Holden at the City of … the Ordinances Adopted by Said Convention

Excerpt from Constitution or Form of Government for the People of Florida: As Revised and Amended at a Convention of the People Begun and Holden at the City of Tallahassee on the Third Day of January, A. D. 1861, Together With the Ordinances Adopted by Said Convention I. No part of this Constitution shall be …

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Law Governing Elections in the State of Florida, Passed at the Regular Session, A. D. 1895: And as Amended 1897, 1899, 1903 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Law Governing Elections in the State of Florida, Passed at the Regular Session, A. D. 1895: And as Amended 1897, 1899, 1903 First. Where there has been no choice of any officer who should have been elected at a general election. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and …

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