Adiminsrative/Biographical History:
Edward Atkinson was born in 1827 and died in 1905.
Inside cover
Acquisition Note:
Presented to the Department of Economics of the University of Illinois by Mr. Thomas J. Taylor, Bookseller, Taunton, Massachusetts, November 1908. (Inside cover).
Description: Papers of Edward Atkinson (1827-1905), renowned economist, contains manuscripts of eighteen essays pasted into two folio volumes, (1886-87 and 1887-88), including considerable revisions, corrections, and marginal comments and and concerning economics topics including: "A good lunch for 10 cents," "Single tax theory," "School instruction and the labor Questions" (presented to American Institute of Instruction (1886), and "How Every Tenant Farmer May become his own Landlord."