Outside readings in economics / by Arliegh P. Hess...[et. al]

For college teachers and students of economics one of the most serious postwar problems has been the inability of college or departmental li braries to meet the need for supplementary reading material, particular ly at the lower division level. To be sure, this situation prevailed before the war, but recent trends have accentuated the problem and brought it into sharper focus. On the one hand, the wealth of collateral reading material in semi-popular magazines, general books, newspapers, government reports, and professional journals is greater than ever; on the other hand, realistic and experienced teachers know that their libararies are even less able than in the past to handle more than a fraction of the total library assignments given out by hopeful faculty members.

In order to meet this need for collateral reading material in the field of economics, we have compiled this volume. We hope it will prove helpful in solving the problem by providing an abundance of carefully selected readings in such an inexpensive form that there should be no need either to forego the use of supplementary material entirely or to try to get along with the inconvenient and inefficient use of the library for this function.