Business & Economics
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the…
Aviation Instructor's Handbook
The handbook does an outstanding job of explaining the application of management and learning psychology for the general educator/manager wi…
The Gospel of Wealth
What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay "…
Capital and Interest
Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of so…
The History of Standard Oil
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 Com…
The Dynamic Manager's Guide To Marketing
To grow your business, add “People” to Product, Price, Place, and Promotion, the classic elements of marketing. Dave Donelson will show you …
The Dynamic Manager's Guide To Advertising
Effective small business advertising isn’t impossible, it’s just hard. It’s hard to make good ads, to buy efficient media, to judge results.…
Fundamentals of Prosperity
Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson offers a thought-provoking exploration of the principles that underpin true success in business a…
U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency
In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Repub…
Principles of Economics
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was a best seller throughout the world, published by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes attended the …
Pep
Pep by Colonel William Crosbie Hunter offers a practical guide to achieving physical and mental efficiency. Written in 1914, this self-help …
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth
"This Essay May be Considered as the Germ of the Treatise on The Wealth of Nations, Written by the Celebrated Smith"—Condorcet's L…
The Use of Knowledge in Society
An article written from a scholarly point of view in 1945 which critically examines the concept of a planned economy while highlighting the …
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
This is the last book that von Mises wrote. It reflects a lifetime of learning and writing about economics as the leader of the Austrian Sch…
Corner in Corn
Vance Thornton is a young man who works for a Corn Operator in Chicago. He picked up a lot of important skills by watching his boss, and now…
Sophisms of the Protectionists
"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…
A Square Deal
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when president William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As the …
Nip and Tuck
Nip and Tuck are the best of rivals. Throughout the time they've known each other, they seemed to be interested in the same things and in co…
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
As a precursor to Capital, Marx outlines his analysis of capitalism and critiques classical economic theories. - Summary by Tray