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Condition: Good. First thus. A good copy of this Victorian era paperback, in illustrated printed wrappers Some soiling, primarily on front cover A 4" chip on the upper front corner and a 2" chip at the bottom front are missing The spine paper is quite scuffed The text is very clean and unmarked, in fact may have been unread David Ames Wells (1828 - 1898) was an American engineer, textbook author, economist and advocate of low tariffs Wells wrote extensively on current economic issues, especially on tariffs, the theory of money and the currency question, and taxation His goal was greater efficiency by progressive lowering of costs of production through the application of science He was the foremost American authority on the economics of the emerging "the machine age" He argued that industrial depressions, with falling prices, were due not to insufficient supply of money, but to sudden and rapid increase in commodities He strongly opposed inflationary monetary policies such as free silver, writing Robinson Crusoe's Money (1876) Wells early emphasized that technological unemployment was displacing of men by machines 118 + 8 p ads pp.…