BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY JONATHAN THAYER LINCOLN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published January 1912

TO MY FATHER

NOTE

This essay is based upon a course of lectures delivered before the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance associated with Dartmouth College. These lectures were subsequently printed in The Mediator, a magazine published in Cleveland, Ohio, and devoted to establishing a better social understanding between the man who buys and the man who sells labor.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

In preparing the historical part of this essay I have consulted many authorities, and in particular I have made free use of the following works.

DEFOE, Daniel

A plan for the English Commerce, London, 1728.