Bad Times: An Essay on the Present Depression of Trade, Tracing it to Its Sources in Enormous Foreign Loans, Excessive War Expenditure, the Increase of Speculation and Millionaires, and the Depopulation of the Rural Districts; with Suggested Remedies

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Macmillan and Company, 1885 - 118 стор.
 

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