The line between economics as a science and economics as a policy art is extremely fuzzy. Once we venture anywhere near popular economics or economic policy debates, we find ourselves confronting the complaint of the great comedian, Jimmy Durante, “Everybody wants to get into the act.” I saw that a few of the books on tariff policy by Harvard economist, Frank W. Taussig, were published in the P. Putnam’s Sons series “Questions of the Day” and was curious what other books were published in that series.
Below I provide links to about one hundred titles published between 1880 and 1910 in the series “Questions of the Day”.
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QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.
P. PUTNAM’S SONS, Publishers, New York and London.
1 — The Independent Movement in New York, as an Element in the next Elections and a Problem in Party Government. By Junius [Eaton, Dorman Bridgman]. 1880. https://archive.org/details/independentmovem00eatouoft
2 — Free Land and Free Trade. The Lessons of the English Corn-Laws Applied to the United States. By Samuel S. Cox. 1880. https://archive.org/details/freelandandfree00coxgoog
3 — Our Merchant Marine. How it rose, increased, became great, declined, and decayed; with an inquiry into the conditions essential to its resuscitation and prosperity. By David A. Wells. 1890. https://archive.org/details/ourmerchantmari00unkngoog
4 — The Elective Franchise in the United States; A Review of the Effects of the Caucus System upon the Civil Service and upon the Principles and Policies of Political Parties. By Duncan Cameron McMillan. 1880. https://archive.org/details/electivefranchi00mcmi
5 — The American Citizen’s Manual Part I. Edited by Worthington C. Ford. — Governments (National, State, and Local), the Electorate, and the Civil Service. 1882. https://archive.org/details/americancitizens01ford
6 — The American Citizen’s Manual. Part II. — The Functions of Government, considered with special reference to taxation and expenditure, the regulation of commerce and industry, provision for the poor and insane, the management of the public lands, etc. 1883. https://archive.org/details/americancitizen00fordgoog [1887 two parts in one: https://archive.org/details/americancitizens00ford]
7 — Spoiling the Egyptians. A Tale of Shame. Told from the British Blue-Books. By J. Seymour Keay. [Original, 1882]. https://archive.org/details/spoilingegyptia00keaygoog]
8 — The Taxation of the Elevated Railroads in the City of New York. By Roger Foster.
9 — The Destructive Influence of the Tariff upon Manufacture and Commerce, and the Facts and Figures Relating Thereto (Second Edition) By J. Schoenhof. https://archive.org/details/destructiveinflu00schouoft
10 — Of Work and Wealth. A Summary of Economics. By R. R. Bowker. 1883. https://archive.org/details/ofworkwealthsumm00bowk
11 — Protection to Young Industries as Applied in the United States. A Study in Economic History. By F. W. Taussig. 1884. https://archive.org/details/cu31924026430995
12 — Terminal Facilities. By W. N. Black.
13 — Public Relief and Private Charity. By Josephine Shaw Lowell. 1884. https://archive.org/details/publicreliefpriv00loweuoft
14 — “The Jukes.” A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity (Fourth Edition). By R. L. Dugdale. 1888. https://archive.org/details/thejukesstudyin00dugd
15 — Protection and Communism; A Consideration of the Effects of the American Tariff upon Wages. By William Rathbone. 1884. https://archive.org/details/protectioncommun00rath
16 — The True Issue; Industrial Depression and Political Corruption Caused by Tariff Monopolies; Reform Demanded in the Interest of Manufacturers, Farmers and Workingmen. By E. J. Donnell. 1884. https://archive.org/details/cu31924013819853
17 — Heavy Ordnance for National Defence. By Wm. H. Jaques, Lieut. U. S. Navy. 1885. https://archive.org/details/heavyordnancefor00jaquuoft
18 — The Spanish Treaty Opposed to Tariff Reform. By D. H. Chamberlain, Jno. Dewitt Warner, Graham McAdam, and J. Schoenhof. 1885. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnf2jn
19 — The History of the Present Tariff, 1860-1883. By Frank W. Taussig. 1885. https://archive.org/details/historyofpresent00tausrich
20 — The Progress of the Working Classes in the Last Half Century. By Robert Giffen. 1884. https://archive.org/details/theprogressofwor00giff
21 — A Solution of the Mormon Problem. By Capt. John Codman. 1885.
22 — Defective and Corrupt Legislation; the Cause and the Remedy. By Simon Sterne. 1885. https://archive.org/details/defectiveandcor00stergoog
23 — Social Economy. By J. E. Thorold Rogers. 1885. https://archive.org/details/socialeconomy01roge
24 — The History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837 being an Account of its Origin, its Distribution among the States, and the Uses to which it was Applied. By Edward G. Bourne. 1885. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032544755
25 — The American Caucus System; Its Origin, Purpose and Utility. By George W. Lawton. 1885. https://archive.org/details/americancaucussy00lawtuoft
26 — The Science of Business; A Study of the Principles Controlling the Laws of Exchange. By Roderick H. Smith. 1885. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030151660
27 — The Evolution of Revelation; A Critique of Opinions concerning the Old Testament. By James Morris Whiton, Ph.D. 1885.
28 — The Postulates of English Political Economy. By Walter Bagehot. 1885. https://archive.org/details/postulatesofeng00bage
29 — Lincoln and Stanton. By Hon. W. D. Keeley. 1885. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032776829
30 — The Industrial Situation and the Question of Wages; A Study in Social Physiology. By J. Schoenhof. 1885. https://archive.org/details/industrialsituat01scho
31 — Ericsson’s Destroyer and Submarine Gun. By Wm. H. Jaques, Lieut. U. S. Navy. 1885. https://archive.org/details/ericssonsdestro00jaqugoog
32 — Modern Armor for National Defence. By Wm. H. Jaques, Lieut. U. S. Navy. 1886. https://archive.org/details/modernarmorforn00jaqugoog
33 — The Physics and Metaphysics of Money; A Sketch of Events Relating to Money in the Early History of California. By Rodmond Gibbons. 1886. https://archive.org/details/physicsmetaphys00gibb
34 — Torpedoes for National Defence. By Wm. H. Jaques, Lieut. U. S. Navy.
35 — Unwise Laws; A Consideration of the Operations of a Protective Tariff Upon Industry, Commerce, and Society. By Lewis H. Blair. 1886. https://archive.org/details/unwiselawsconsid00blaiuoft
36 — Railway Practice; Its Principles and Suggested Reforms Reviewed. By E. Porter Alexander. 1887. https://archive.org/details/cu31924017148853
37 — American State Constitutions: A Study of their Growth. By Henry Hitchcock, LL.D. 1887. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030487932
38 — The Inter-State Commerce Act: An Analysis of Its Provisions. By John R. Dos Passos. 1887. https://archive.org/details/cu31924020340232
39 — Federal Taxation and State Expenses; or, The Public Good, as Distinct from the General Welfare of the United States (Second edition, revised). By William Hiter Jones. 1890. https://archive.org/details/federaltaxesstat00jonerich [First Edition, 1887. https://archive.org/details/federaltaxesstat00joneuoft]
40 — The Margin of Profits: How It is now Divided; What Part of the Present Hours of Labor can Now be Spared. By Edward Atkinson. 1887. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030078269
41 — The Fishery Question; Its Origin, History and Present Situation. By Charles Isham. 1887. https://archive.org/details/fisheryquestioni00ishauoft
42 — Bodyke: A Chapter in the History of Irish Landlordism. By Henry Norman. 1887. https://archive.org/details/bodykechapterinh00normuoft
43 — Slav or Saxon: A Study of the Growth and Tendencies of Russian Civilization (Second edition, revised). By William Dudley Foulke, A.M. 1899. https://archive.org/details/slavorsaxonstudy02foul
44 — The Present Condition of Economic Science, and the Demand for a Radical Change in Its Methods and Aims. By Edward Clark Lunt. 1888. https://archive.org/details/presentcondition00lunt
45 — The Old South and The New; A Series of Letters. By Hon. W. D. Kelley. 1888. https://archive.org/details/oldsouthnewserie00kell
46 — Property in Land. An essay on the New Crusade. By Henry Winn. 1888. https://archive.org/details/propertyinlandes00winnuoft
47 — The Tariff History of the United States. By Frank W. Taussig. 1888. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030184836
4th edition 1899: https://archive.org/details/tariffhistoryofu00taus
5th edition 1910: https://archive.org/details/cu31924032519336
6th edition 1914: https://archive.org/details/tariffhistoryofu00tausrich
8th edition 1931: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46434
48 — The President’s Message, 1887. With Illustrations by Thomas Nast and Annotations by R. R. Bowker. 1888. https://archive.org/details/messagpresidents00unitrich
49 — Essays on Practical Politics. By Theodore Roosevelt. 1888. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032462487
50 — The Champion Tariff Swindle of the World; Friendly Letters to American Farmers and Others. By J. S. Moore. 1888. https://archive.org/details/friendlyletterst00moor
51 — American Prisons in the Tenth United States Census. By Frederick Howard Wines. 1888. https://archive.org/details/americanprisonsi00wineuoft
52 — Tariff Chats. By Henry J. Philpott. 1888. https://archive.org/details/tariffchats00philrich
53 — The Tariff and its Evils; or, Protection which does not Protect. By John H. Allen. 1888. https://archive.org/details/tariffitsevilsor00alleuoft
54 — Relation of the Tariff to Wages. By David A. Wells. 1888. https://archive.org/details/relationoftariff00well
55 — True or False Finance. The Issue of 1888. By A Tax-payer. 1888 https://archive.org/details/cu31924031232725
56 — Outlines of a New Science. By E. J. Donnell. 1889. https://archive.org/details/outlinesofnewsc00donn
57 — The Plantation Negro as a Freeman. By Philip A. Bruce. 1889. https://archive.org/details/plantationnegroa00bruc
58 — Politics as a Duty and as a Career. By Moorfield Storey. 1889. https://archive.org/details/politicsasdutyas00stor
59 — Monopolies and the People. By Charles Whiting Baker. 1890. https://archive.org/details/monopoliespeople00bakeuoft
60 — Public Regulation of Railways. By W. D. Dabney. 1889. https://archive.org/details/cu31924070674100
61 — Railway Secrecy and Trusts; Its Relation to Interstate Legislation. An Analysis of the Chief Evils of Railway Management in the United States, and Influence of Existing Legislation upon these Evils, and Suggestions for their Reform. By John M. Bonham, author of “Industrial Liberty.” 1890. https://archive.org/details/cu31924017064886
62 — American Farms: Their Condition and Future. By J. R. Elliott. 1890. https://archive.org/details/cu31924013992536
63 — Want and Wealth. A Discussion of Certain Economic Dangers of the Day. An Essay. By Edward J. Shriver, Secretary N. Y. Metal Exchange. 1890. https://archive.org/details/wantwealthdiscu00shri
64 — The Question of Ships. Comprising I. The Decay of Our Ocean Mercantile Marine; Its Cause and its Cure. By David A. Wells; and II. Shipping Subsidies and Bounties. By Captain John Codman. 1890. https://archive.org/details/questionofshipsi00wellrich
65 — A Tariff Primer. The Effects of Protection upon the Farmer and Laborer. By Hon. Porter Sherman, M.A. 1891. https://archive.org/details/atariffprimeref00shergoog
66 — The Death Penalty. A Consideration of the Objections to Capital Punishment; with a Chapter on War. By Andrew J. Palm
67 — The Question of Copyright; A Summary of the Copyright Laws at Present in Force in the Chief Countries of the World. Edited by G. H. Putnam. 1891. https://archive.org/details/cu31924022607455
68 — Parties and Patronage in the United States. By Lyon Gardiner Tyler, President William and Mary College. 1891. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030471423
69 — Money, Silver and Finance. By J. H. Cowperthwait. 1892. https://archive.org/details/cu31924013984947
70 — The Question of Silver; Comprising a Brief Summary of Legislation in the United States, Together with a Practical Analysis of the Present Situation, and of the Arguments of the Advocates of Unlimited Silver Coinage. By Louis R. Ehrich. 1892. https://archive.org/details/questionofsilver00ehri
71 — Who Pays Your Taxes? By David A. Wells, Thomas G. Sherman, and others. Edited by Bolton Hall. 1892. https://archive.org/details/whopaysyourtaxes00hall
72 — The Farmers’ Tariff Manual by a Farmer. By Daniel Strange. 1892. https://archive.org/details/farmerstariffman00stra
73 — The Economy of High Wages. By J. Schoenhof, author of “The Industrial Situation,” etc., etc. 1893. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032403564
74 — The Silver Situation in the United States. By Prof. F. W. Taussig. 2nd edition 1896:
https://archive.org/details/silversituationi00taus ; (3rd edition, 1898). By Frank W. Taussig https://archive.org/details/cu31924030194207 ; Originally AEA publication Vol. VII, No. 1 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044081946527
75 — A Brief History of Panics, and their Periodical Occurrence in the United States. By Clement Juglar. Translated by DeCourcey W. Thom. 1893. https://archive.org/details/abriefhistorypa00juglgoog
76 — Industrial Arbitration and Conciliation. By Josephine Shaw Lowell. 1894. https://archive.org/details/industrialarbitr00loweuoft
77 — Primary Elections. A Study of Methods for Improving the Basis of Party Organization (Second edition). By Daniel S. Remsen. 1895. https://archive.org/details/primaryelection00remsgoog
78 — Canadian Independence, Annexation and British Imperial Federation. By James Douglas. 1894. https://archive.org/details/canadianindepend00douguoft
79 — Joint-Metallism; A Plan by which Gold and Silver Together, at Ratios Always Based on their Relative Market Values, May Be Made the Metallic Basis of a Sound, Honest, Self-Regulating, and Permanent Currency, Without Frequent Recoinings, and without Danger of One Metal Driving Out the Other. By Anson Phelps Stokes; 5th edition. 1896. https://archive.org/details/cu31924031493376
80 — “Common Sense” Applied to Woman Suffrage. By Mary Putnam-Jacobi, M.D. 1894. https://archive.org/details/commonsenseappl00jacogoog
81 — The Problem of Police Legislation; A Consideration of the Best Means of Dealing with It. By Dorman B. Eaton. 1895. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89101022507
82 — A Sound Currency and Banking System. How it may be Secured. By Allen Ripley Foote. 1895. https://archive.org/details/asoundcurrencya00riplgoog
83 — Natural Taxation; An Inquiry into the Practicability, Justice and Effects of a Scientific and Natural Method of Taxation. By Thomas G. Shearman. 1895. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030263903
84 — Real Bi-Metallism; or True Coin versus False Coin; A Lesson for “Coin’s Financial School”. By Everett P. Wheeler.1895. https://archive.org/details/realbimetallism00wheegoog
85 — Congressional Currency; An Outline of the Federal Money System. By Armistead C. Gordon. 1895. https://archive.org/details/congressionalcu00gordgoog
86 — A History of Money and Prices. By J. Schoenhof, author of “Economy of High Wages,” etc. 1896. https://archive.org/details/historyofmoneypr00schoiala
87 — America and Europe; A Study of International Relations. I. The United States and Great Britain by David A. Wells; II. The Monroe Doctrine by Edward J. Phelps; and III. Arbitration in International Disputes by Carl Schurz. 1896. https://archive.org/details/cu31924007480894
88 — The War of the Standards; Coin and Credit versus Coin without Credit. By Judge Albion W. Tourgée. 1896. https://archive.org/details/warofstandardsco00tourrich
89 — A General Freight and Passenger Post. By James L. Cowles. Third edition. 1902. https://archive.org/details/generalfreightpa00cowlrich
90 — Municipal Reform. By Thomas C. Devlin. 1896. https://archive.org/details/municipalreform01devlgoog
91 — Monetary Problems and Reform. By Charles H. Swan, Jr. 1897. https://archive.org/details/monetaryproblems00swan
92 — The Proposed Anglo-American Alliance. By Charles Alexander Gardiner. 1898.
93 — Our Right to Acquire and Hold Foreign Territory. By Charles A. Gardiner. 1899. https://archive.org/details/ourrighttoacqui00gardgoog
94 — The Wheat Problem; Based on Remarks Made in the Presidential Address to the British Association at Bristol in 1898; Revised, with an Answer to Various Critics. By Sir William Crookes. 1900. https://archive.org/details/wheatproblembas00davigoog
95 — The Regeneration of the United States; A Forecast of its Industrial Evolution. By William Morton Grinnell. 1899. https://archive.org/details/regenerationuni00gringoog
96 — Railway Control by Commissions. By Frank Hendrick. 1900. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032483277
97 — Commercial Trusts; The Growth and Rights of Aggregated Capital. An Argument Delivered Before the Industrial Commission at Washington, D.C. December 12, 1899, Corrected and Revised. By John R. Dos Passos. 1901. https://archive.org/details/cu31924020755231
98 — Labor and Capital; A Discussion of the Relations of Employer and Employed. Edited by John P. Peters. 1902. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032467098
99 — The Social Evil [i.e., prostitution] with Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York. A Report Prepared under the Direction of the Committee of Fifteen. 1902. https://archive.org/details/socialevil01newy
100 — German Ambitions as They Affect Britain and the United States. By “Vigilans sed AEquus.” (reprinted 1908). https://archive.org/details/germanambitionsa00vigiuoft
101 — Industrial Conciliation; Report of the Proceedings of the Conference held under the Auspices of the National Civic Federation in New York, December 16 and 17, 1901. Published 1902. https://archive.org/details/industrialconcil00natirich
102 — Political Parties and Party Policies in Germany. By James H. Gore. 1903. https://archive.org/details/cu31924031439387
103 — The Liquor Tax Law in New York. By William Travers Jerome. 1905. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112066901437
104 — Social Theories and Social Facts. By William Morton Grinnell. 1905. https://archive.org/details/socialtheoriesso00grin
105 — The Congo. A Report of the Commission of Enquiry Appointed by the Congo Free State Government. A Complete and Accurate Translation. 1906. https://archive.org/details/congoreportofcom00cong
106 — Janus in Modern Life.—By Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. 1907. https://archive.org/details/janusinmodernlif00petruoft
107 — The Elimination of the Tramp by the Introduction into America of the Labour Colony System Already Proved effective in Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland, with the Modification thereof Necessary to Adapt this System to American Conditions.—By Edmond Kelly. 1908. https://archive.org/details/eliminationoftra00kellrich
Vital American Problems; An Attempt to Solve the “Trust”, “Labor” and “Negro” Problems. By Harry Earl Montgomery. 1908. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032570479
Strikes: When to Strike, How to Strike; A Book of Suggestions for the Buyers and Sellers of Labour. By Oscar T. Crosby. 1910. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433008277620
Image Source: The Tariff Commission, 1916 (Left to Right, seated: D. J. Lewis; F. W. Taussig, chairman; E. P. Costigan. Standing: William Kent; W. S. Culberstone; D. C. Roper). The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860 – 1920..