The University of Wisconsin economist, Richard T. Ely, served as the general editor for the social science series entitled “The Citizen’s Library of Economics, Politics and Sociology.” He actually disliked the title “Citizen’s Library” that had been given by Macmillan. He thought it would give an unintended popular stigma to the scientific works he intended to include (Benjamin G. Radar [1966], The Academic Mind and Reform: The Influence of Richard T. Ely in American Life, p. 156).
Links are provided to all the individual items but one (I couldn’t find an online copy of Blackmar’s Elements of Sociology).
_____________________
THE CITIZEN’S LIBRARY
OF ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND SOCIOLOGY.
Edited by Richard T. Ely, Ph.D., LL.D.
Professor of Economics in the University of Wisconsin
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York
EDITOR’S PREFACE
The present volume is the first in a Library having the above title. It is hoped eventually to cover the three fields of knowledge indicated by the title in such way that the various series included in the Library will afford such complete information concerning the theory and facts of these sciences that the volumes will have some of the advantages of an encyclopedic work combined with those of separate and distinct treatises. To aid in the accomplishment of this purpose, it is planned to issue from time to time an index volume or supplement, binding together a series on closely related subjects. [Note: not aware this ever happened] This Library thus includes new and valuable features, for it will give to the public a set of works affording information on topics of importance to every citizen which must now be sought in a great multiplicity of sources, and often sought in vain.
The character of the writers and the management of the Library will be such as to inspire confidence. The utmost pains will be taken to secure the greatest possible accuracy in all statistical tables and statements of fact and theory, and no partisan bias will disturb the conclusions. It is the conviction of the Editor that scientific work in the field of the humanities may generally be made interesting to intelligent citizens through cultivation of clearness in statement and literary style. There are masterpieces even in Economics, for example, which rank as literature, as Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and John Stuart Mill’s Political Economy bear witness. It is desired to lay emphasis on the fact that while the sciences of Economics, Politics, and Sociology are of concern to the citizen, and make appropriate the title ” Citizen’s Library,” in no case will the interests of science be sacrificed to popularity. The aim will be to bring every volume in the Library up to the present standard of science, and it is hoped that the Library will in more than one instance push forward the boundaries of knowledge.
In conclusion, it only remains to add that the various authors assume responsibility for expressions of opinion, and that publication in the Library does not necessarily mean an endorsement either by publishers or Editor of views found in the several volumes.
The Editor.
Source: Ely, Richard T. Monopolies and Trusts , New York: Macmillan, 1900, pp. ix-xi.
_____________________
BOOKS IN THE CITIZEN’S LIBRARY
OF ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND SOCIOLOGY.
Addams, Jane. (1902). Democracy and Social Ethics.
Addams, Jane. (1907). Newer Ideals of Peace.
Baker, M. N. (1902). Municipal Engineering and Sanitation.
Blackmar, Frank Wilson. (1908). The Elements of Sociology.
Bradford, Ernest S. (1911). Commission Government in American Cities.
Bullock, Charles J. (1900). Essays on the Monetary History of the United States.
Carlton, Frank Tracy. (1908). Education and Industrial Evolution.
Ely, Richard T. (1893). Outlines of Economics.
Ely, Richard T. (1893, reprinted 1900). Outlines of Economics.
Ely, Richard T., Thomas S. Adams, Max O. Lorenz, and Allyn A. Young. (1908, revised and enlarged). Outlines of Economics.
Ely, Richard T. (1900). Monopolies and Trusts.
Ely, Richard T. (1903). Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society.
Ely, Richard T. (1905 reprint of 1886). Labor Movement in America.
Fisk, George Mygatt. (1907). International Commercial Policies with Special Reference to the United States, a Text Book.
Hobson, John A. (1900). The Economics of Distribution.
Jones, Edward D. (1900). Economic Crises.
Kelley, Florence. (1905). Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation.
Kinley, David. (1904). Money.
MacLean, Annie Marion. (1910). Wage-Earning Women.
Macy, Jesse. (1900). Political Parties in the United States, 1846-1861.
Mangold, George B. (1910). Child Problems.
Mead, Elwood. (1903) Irrigation Institutions. A Discussion of the Economic and Legal Questions Created by the Growth of Irrigated Agriculture in the West.
Meyer, Balthasar Henry (1909). Railway Legislation in the United States.
Parmelee, Maurice. (1908). The Principles of Anthropology and Sociology in Their Relations To Criminal Procedure.
Reinsch, Paul S. (1900). World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century as Influenced by the Oriental Situation.
Reinsch, Paul S. (1902). Colonial Government.
Reinsch, Paul S. (1905). Colonial Administration.
Ross, E. A. and Aleworth, E. (1901). Social control, a survey of the foundations of order.
Ross, Edward A. (1905). The Foundations of Sociology.
Smith, J. Allen. (1907). The Spirit of American Government; A Study of the Constitution: its Origin, Influence and Relation to Democracy.
Sparling, Samuel E. (1906). Introduction to Business Organization.
Taylor, Henry C. (1905). An Introduction to the Study of Agricultural Economics.
Vincent, John Martin. (1900). Government in Switzerland.
Wilcox, Delos F. (1904). The American City; A Problem in Democracy.
Wilcox, Delos F. (1910). Great Cities in America, their Problems and their Government.
Zueblin Charles (Revised edition, 1916). American Municipal Progress.
Image Source: Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees, Vol. IV (1900), p. 505.