Business & Economics
What Shall We Do?
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…
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
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 "…
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 …
Social Life in England
In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ra…
Fundamentals of Prosperity
Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson offers a thought-provoking exploration of the principles that underpin true success in business a…
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 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.…
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
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 y…
Thrift
"This book is intended as a sequel to Self-Help and Character. It might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for…
Psychology of the Stock Market
Written in 1912 (before the 1929 crash and way before electronic trading), economist G. C. Selden explores the psychology behind stock marke…
Capital and Interest
Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of so…
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…
Making Home Profitable
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 Square Deal
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when president William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As the …
Food Guide for War Service at 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 f…
The Great Lakes and the Vessels That Plough Them
The author sets forth the facts of the Great Lakes' largest fleet of freighters in the world, explaining what an enormous role Great Lakes c…
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 American Bee Journal
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…