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On the Prohibitionist side:
Henry W. Farnam, _The Liquor Problem_, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905, as
well as a contribution to the _Yale Review_ (April 1920), and testimony to
the Senate Judiciary Sub-committee (April 1926). Farnam, the long-time
secretary of Yale University, was the AEA president responsible for establishing the
_American Economic Review_.
Irving Fisher, _Prohibition at Its Worst_, New York: Macmillan, 1926.
Irving Fisher with H. B. Brougham, _Prohibition Still at Its Worst_,
Alcohol Information Committee, 1928.
Irving Fisher with H. B. Brougham, _The Noble Experiment_, Alcohol Information
Committee, 1930.
William J. Barber, ed., _The Works of Irving Fisher_, London: Pickering &
Chatto, 1997, Volume 13, Chapter IV.
Critical of Prohibition:
John Koren, "The Economic Aspect of the Liquor Problem," _Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science_, September 1923. Koren
served as president of the American Statistical Association.
Clark Warburton, _The Economic Results of Prohibition_, New York: Columbia
University Press, 1932, reprinted New York: AMS Press, 1968. Warburton,
later better known as a "pioneer monetarist", also wrote the article on
Prohibition in the _Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences_.
Robert W. Dimand
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