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DELMAR, Alexander, political economist, born in New York City, 9 August 1836. His father was a native of Spain. He was a writer on a New York journal in 1854, and became financial editor of "Hunt's Merchants' Magazine," and of several New York papers. He established the "Social Science Review," and was its editor in 1864'6. He was called upon to organize the U. S. bureau of statistics in 1866, was its director in 1867'8, and in 1867 became president of the Washington statistical society. He is the author of "Gold Money and Paper Money" (New York, 18'62); "Treatise on Taxation"; "Essays on Political Economy" (1865); "The National Banking System " (1865); " Statistical Handbook" (1866); " What is Free Trade ?" (1868); " Letter on the Finances" (1868); " The Suppressed Report " (1869); and "The Resources, Productions, and Social Condition of Egypt" (1874).
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