This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... the last annual meeting. The second number was the Handbook of the Asosciation, 59 pages. The third number was a substantial monograph of 379 pages on "The Printers," by Professor George E Barnett. The fourth number is a smaller monograph of 95 pages on "Life Insurance Reform in New York," by Professor William H. Price. The four numbers make a bulky volume of 965 pages, without advertisements, containing a large number of papers, addresses, and brief discussions of economic topics, besides two independent monographs, embodying the results of years of careful research by two specialists. The four numbers of the Economic Bulletin make up another volume of 438 pages, devoted to book reviews, an annotated and classified bibliography, personal notes, news from the various fields of economic research, and other items of interest to students of economics. The two volumes together thus include I403 pages of material of widely varying kinds, from bibliographical and personal notes to substantial monographs, all of it of a kind to interest economists, and most of it of a kind that can be obtained nowhere else. These facts are mentioned, first, to show the members of the Association how much in the way of printed matter they are getting for their membership fee of $3, aside from the other advantages of membership; second, to show why the finances of the Association will remain in a somewhat unsatisfactory state unless we do one of three things: (I) increase our membership, (2) increase the anual dues. or (3) reduce our publications. Of these three possibilities, the first seems to the Secretary to be the most attractive. The fact that the Association is now acting as its own publisher, or selling agent, adds considerably to...

Excerpt from Papers and Proceedings, Twenty-Second Annual Meeting, American Sociological Society, Vol. 22: Held at Washington December 27-30, 1927 The lines of social research have largely converged on the ques tion of behavior reactions and the processes involved in their for mation and modification. It appears that the particular behavior patterns and the total personality are overwhelmingly conditioned by the types of Situations and trains of experience encountered by the individual in the course of his life. The question of heredity remains a factor, but this is also being studied in terms of behav ior; it is, in fact, defined as the phylogenetic memory of experience - memory organically incorporated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.