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KAHN, OTTO HERMANN. Our economic and other problems. *$4 (3½c) Doran 304
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A series of papers embodying a financier’s point of view on business and economics, war and foreign relations, and art. The book opens with an address on Edward Henry Harriman, characterized as the last figure of an epoch, delivered before the Finance Forum in New York, January 25, 1911. Among the papers on business and economics are: Strangling the railroads; Government ownership of railroads; High finance; The menace of paternalism; France; When the tide turned; Great Britain, and America and the League of nations are among the subjects considered under war and foreign relations, and there are three papers on art: Some observations on art in America; An experiment in popular priced opera; Art and the people.
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“The chapter on the railroads will be of less interest, though of great importance in itself, than that on labour and capital.”
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“The book will prove interesting and profitable to all seeking instruction from a source at once modest and authoritative. Mr Kahn is an actor in international finance as well as a writer upon it, and his book has the quality which results from doing things rather than thinking about doing them.”
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