PREFACE

HE paper on Who Should Have Wealth,

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which gives the title to this present volume, is the result of the author's teaching of Economics during the last dozen years. Prepared originally as a lecture for a college class, it has been given in a number of places to widely different audiences. After its appearance in print in the Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, it was, with the author's permission, translated into Spanish and reprinted in the issue of Inter-America for May, 1918. The paper, however, has been revised and enlarged for present publication. The other papers printed in this volume, although on various economic questions, are all concerned in an ultimate analysis with the distribution of wealth which gives to the book an underlying unity. The real and vital interest aroused by such economic questions as taxation, socialism, trade unionism, strikes, and coöpera

tion, is found in the fact that they affect a man's income.

The author is indebted to the editors of the American Economic Review, the Boston Evening Transcript, the Dial, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, for courteous permission to use material from articles contributed by him to these journals. All this material, however, has been subjected to a thorough revision, resulting in several instances in almost an entirely new article. The paper on The Tax on the Increase in Land Values was prepared for the State Tax Conference at the University of Washington in 1914 and was later published in the volume on Taxation in Washington. The paper in its present revised form brings out the development of land value taxation in recent years. The article on Coöperative Production among the Shingle Weavers appeared in an abbreviated form in the Quarterly Journal of Economics for May, 1924. The last paper is printed here for the first time.

This volume, the author believes, should be of interest and value to all readers interested in economic and public questions; also for reading and reference it should be of use to students of Economics. Most of the papers included have been expounded in the classroom, and thus, as it were,

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have been "tried out on the dog" before reaching final form in print. At any rate, whatever their merits or demerits may be, they ought at least to be understandable.

The writer wishes to express his thanks to his wife for valuable assistance rendered in the preparation of this book.

GEORGE MILTON JANES.

WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA,

December 1924.