A Plain Man S Talk on the Labor Question

Simon Newcomb (1835 -1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. He made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel. Newcomb was professor of mathematics and astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory. The table of Contents is divided into sections, Society and its Wants, Capital and its Uses, and The Laborer and His Wages,