Business & Economics
Food Guide for War Service at Home
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Katherine Blunt
"The long war has brought hunger to Europe; some of her peoples stand constantly face to face with starvation. To meet all this great f…
The Poverty of Philosophy
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Karl Marx
This work is a scathing criticism of the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty. (Summar…
Sophisms of the Protectionists
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Frédéric Bastiat
"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…
Social Statics
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Herbert Spencer
Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath …
U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, "Aldrich plan."
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Alfred Owen Crozier
In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Repub…
The Gospel of Wealth
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Andrew Carnegie
What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay "…
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 ("…