Business & Economics
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1
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Charles E. Flandrau
"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 un…
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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Karl Marx
As a precursor to Capital, Marx outlines his analysis of capitalism and critiques classical economic theories. - Summary by Tray
The Challenge of Waste
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Stuart Chase
"The Challenge of Waste" examines the wasteful nature of the competitive market system, particularly from a Veblenian point of vie…
What Shall We Do?
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Leo Tolstoy
A vivid description of wealth and poverty in Russia in Tolstoy's day, an inquiry into the root causes of economic inequality, and a vision o…
Thrift
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Samuel Smiles
"This book is intended as a sequel to Self-Help and Character. It might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for…
Social Life in England 1750-1850
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F. J. Foakes-Jackson
In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ra…
Money and Trade Considered
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John Law
Money and Trade Considered, With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money was so much more than a mere proposal for a note-issuing ban…
The London and Country Brewer
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William James Mcglothlin
The unknown author of this book, appears to have experienced too many unwholesome and unpleasant beers and ales on his numerous travels in L…
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
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Arthur Young
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst o…
A Square Deal
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when president William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As the …
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways
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Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris
This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…
Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (The Brady Report)
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Presidential Task Force On Market Mechanisms
From the close of trading on Tuesday, October 13, 1987, to the close of trading on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ("…
Ads and Sales: A Study of Advertising and Selling from the Standpoint of the Ne…
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Herbert Newton Casson
This book is a treatise on advertising as it was in the United States in 1911."This book is the first attempt, as far as I know, to app…
Triumphant Democracy
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Andrew Carnegie
Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in …
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Making Home Profitable
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Kate Saint Maur
A new life in the country was another chance for Kate Saint Maur and her husband after a business failure left them in dire straits in the c…
A Battle of the Books
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Gail Hamilton
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publis…
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 11, Mar. 16, 1881
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The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…
The Trial of a New Society
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Justus Ebert
In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working…