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Social Statics - Herbert Spencer
Social Statics - Herbert Spencer
- Author: Herbert Spencer
- Genre: Business & Economics
Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath Herbert Spencer. In it, he uses the term "fitness" in applying his ideas of Lamarckian evolution to society,...
Economics - Aristotle
Economics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Business & Economics / Ancient
Economics (Greek: ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΑ; Latin: Oeconomica) may not have been written by Aristotle. The author provides examples of methods used by the state to raise money including debt, currency devaluation, commodity controls, tariffs, sales tax, fines,...
The People of the Abyss - Jack London
The People of the Abyss - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Business & Economics / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a...
The Wealth of Nations, Book 2 and 3 - Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, Book 2 and 3 - Adam Smith
- Author: Adam Smith
- Genre: Business & Economics
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of...
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen
- Author: Thorstein Veblen
- Genre: Business & Economics
Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the Theory of the Leisure Class is considered one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed...
The Wealth of Nations, Book 1 - Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, Book 1 - Adam Smith
- Author: Adam Smith
- Genre: Business & Economics
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of...
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways - Charles McLean Andrews
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Family Life / Business & Economics / Education
This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, houses, habits, diversions, learning, religion, labor, and travel....
Fundamentals of Prosperity - Roger BABSON
Fundamentals of Prosperity - Roger BABSON
- Author: Roger BABSON
- Genre: Business & Economics
What these principles are and whence they come to us. "The fact is, we have become crazy over material things. We are looking only at the structure above ground. We are trying to get more smoke from the chimney. We are looking at space instead of...
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2) - Arnold Bennett
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2) - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Business & Economics / Self-Help
Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given you each day, or just throw most of it away? These questions Bennett asks each of us and for those who want to...
The History of Standard Oil: Volume 2 - Ida M. TARBELL
The History of Standard Oil: Volume 2 - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics / History
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Company, run at that time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, the richest figure in America's history. Originally...
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1 - Charles E. Flandrau
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1 - Charles E. Flandrau
- Author: Charles E. Flandrau
- Genre: War & Military / Business & Economics / Education
"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and unimportant creation, but which in its half century of growth has expanded into one of the most brilliant and...
The Challenge of Waste - Stuart CHASE
The Challenge of Waste - Stuart CHASE
- Author: Stuart CHASE
- Genre: Business & Economics
"The Challenge of Waste" examines the wasteful nature of the competitive market system, particularly from a Veblenian point of view. He also praises World War I era planning by the Fuel Administration and other government wartime agencies. (Summary...
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth - Anne Robert Jacques TURGOT
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth - Anne Robert Jacques TURGOT
- Author: Anne Robert Jacques TURGOT
- Genre: Business & Economics
"This Essay May be Considered as the Germ of the Treatise on The Wealth of Nations, Written by the Celebrated Smith"—Condorcet's Life of Turgot....
The Principles of Economics with Applications to Practical Problems - Frank Albert FETTER
The Principles of Economics with Applications to Practical Problems - Frank Albert FETTER
- Author: Frank Albert FETTER
- Genre: Business & Economics
Frank Albert Fetter was an American economist of the Austrian school, but referred to himself as a member of the “American Psychological School” instead. Fetter contested the position that land is theoretically distinct from capital, arguing that...
War Is a Racket - Smedley BUTLER
War Is a Racket - Smedley BUTLER
- Author: Smedley BUTLER
- Genre: War & Military / Business & Economics / Modern (20th C)
Army Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, “I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big...
Principles of Economics, Book 5: General Relations of Demand, Supply and Value - Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics, Book 5: General Relations of Demand, Supply and Value - Alfred Marshall
- Author: Alfred Marshall
- Genre: Business & Economics
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it. His plan for the work gradually extended...
Progress and Poverty - Henry GEORGE
Progress and Poverty - Henry GEORGE
- Author: Henry GEORGE
- Genre: Business & Economics / Political Science / Contemporary
What I have done in this book, if I have correctly solved the great problem I have sought to investigate, is, to unite the truth perceived by the school of Smith and Ricardo to the truth perceived by the schools of Proudhon and Lasalle; to show that...
The Wealth of Nations, Book 4 - Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, Book 4 - Adam Smith
- Author: Adam Smith
- Genre: Business & Economics
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of...
The Servile State - Hilaire Belloc
The Servile State - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Business & Economics / Political Science
A clear boundary exists between the servile and the non-servile condition of labour, and the conditions upon either side of that boundary utterly differ one from another, Where there is compulsion applicable by positive law to men of a certain...
Eryxias - Plato
Eryxias - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Business & Economics / Ancient
Eryxias (ΕΡΥΞΙΑΣ) may not have been written by Plato (ΠΛΑΤΩΝ). The dialogue discusses whether wealth has value and what the aim of philosophy should be. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1 - Ida M. TARBELL
The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1 - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics / History
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Company, run at that time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller the richest figure in America's history. Originally...
Other People's Money - Louis D. BRANDEIS
Other People's Money - Louis D. BRANDEIS
- Author: Louis D. BRANDEIS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics / Essays & Short Works
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various industries under the control of a...
U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, "Aldrich plan." - Alfred Owen CROZIER
U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, "Aldrich plan." - Alfred Owen CROZIER
- Author: Alfred Owen CROZIER
- Genre: Business & Economics
In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Republican-RI) was chair of the commission. He, in secret enclave with a group of bankers, drafted what was called...
Capital and Interest - Frédéric BASTIAT
Capital and Interest - Frédéric BASTIAT
- Author: Frédéric BASTIAT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics
Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of socialist ideology after the French revolution, where provisional governments were rivaling each other for power. Of central...
The London and Country Brewer - Anonymous
The London and Country Brewer - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Business & Economics
The unknown author of this book, appears to have experienced too many unwholesome and unpleasant beers and ales on his numerous travels in London and at various other locations around the British Isles.In this treatise on the matter, he has...
Principles of Economics, Book 2: Some Fundamental Notions - Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics, Book 2: Some Fundamental Notions - Alfred Marshall
- Author: Alfred Marshall
- Genre: Business & Economics
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the Principles of Economics in 1881 and he spent much of the next decade at work on the treatise. His plan for...
Food Guide for War Service at Home - Katherine BLUNT
Food Guide for War Service at Home - Katherine BLUNT
- Author: Katherine BLUNT
- Genre: Business & Economics / House & Home
"The long war has brought hunger to Europe; some of her peoples stand constantly face to face with starvation. To meet all this great food need in Europe—and meeting it is an imperative military necessity—we must be very careful and economical in...
Sophisms of the Protectionists - Frédéric BASTIAT
Sophisms of the Protectionists - Frédéric BASTIAT
- Author: Frédéric BASTIAT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics
"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various applications, against fallacious arguments promoting the "Protection" of industries to the detriment of consumers and...
The Art of Money Getting - P. T. Barnum
The Art of Money Getting - P. T. Barnum
- Author: P. T. Barnum
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Business & Economics
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. His...
Gloves Past and Present - Willard M. Smith
Gloves Past and Present - Willard M. Smith
- Author: Willard M. Smith
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Business & Economics
From the preface: "For thirty years I have devoted myself to the practical problems of the glove industry, and my connection with one of the substantial firms of master-merchant-glovers in the world has taught me how little gloves are known or...
The Poverty of Philosophy - Karl MARX
The Poverty of Philosophy - Karl MARX
- Author: Karl MARX
- Genre: Business & Economics / Modern
This work is a scathing criticism of the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty. (Summary by TriciaG)...
Triumphant Democracy - Andrew Carnegie
Triumphant Democracy - Andrew Carnegie
- Author: Andrew Carnegie
- Genre: Business & Economics / Modern (19th C)
Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in 1886, an impassioned celebration of the American success story, and a call for other nations to follow in America's...
A Battle of the Books - Gail Hamilton
A Battle of the Books - Gail Hamilton
- Author: Gail Hamilton
- Genre: Satire / Business & Economics
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publishers, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that he should declare the causes which impel him to...
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines - Dan DeQuille
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines - Dan DeQuille
- Author: Dan DeQuille
- Genre: Business & Economics / Modern (19th C)
This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the railroads. Silver not only defined Nevada, but influenced the opening of the American West as far as San...
The Empire of Business - Andrew Carnegie
The Empire of Business - Andrew Carnegie
- Author: Andrew Carnegie
- Genre: Business & Economics
This collection of essays by Scottish-American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie, gathered from various periodicals and first published in book form in 1902, provides insight into one of history’s richest and most notable...
The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Vol 1 No 2 - Various
The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Vol 1 No 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Business & Economics / Short non-fiction
This is the second issue of a monthly agricultural magazine for the year 1820. From the introduction: "A leading object of the Rural Magazine will be to furnish correct views of the science of Agriculture, and the various improvements which are...
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 14, Apr. 6, 1881 - Various
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 14, Apr. 6, 1881 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Animals / Business & Economics
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sale of pure honey. Published every Wednesday, by Thomas G. Newman, Editor and Proprietor” In this volume are...
Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (The Brady Report) - Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms
Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (The Brady Report) - Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms
- Author: Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms
- Genre: Business & Economics
From the close of trading on Tuesday, October 13, 1987, to the close of trading on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ("Dow") fell 769 points or 31 percent. On October 19, 1987, alone, the Dow fell by 508 points or 22.6 percent....
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 11, Mar. 16, 1881 - Various
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 11, Mar. 16, 1881 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Business & Economics / Crafts & Hobbies
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sale of pure honey. Published every Wednesday, by Thomas G. Newman, Editor and Proprietor” In this issues are...
The American Bee Journal, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, Jan 1894 - Various
The American Bee Journal, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, Jan 1894 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Business & Economics / Nature
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sale of pure honey. Published every Wednesday, by Thomas G. Newman, Editor and Proprietor” In this issues are...