Business & Economics

The Dynamic Manager's Guide To Advertising: How To Grow Your Business With Ads T…

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Dave Donelson


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.…

The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1

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Ida M. Tarbell


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…

Principles of Economics, Book 1: Preliminary Survey

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Principles of Economics, Book 2: Some Fundamental Notions

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Thorstein Veblen


Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the…

Essays on Political Economy

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Frédéric Bastiat


Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon


What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Reche…

The History of Standard Oil: Volume 2

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Ida M. Tarbell


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…

Principles of Economics, Book 5: General Relations of Demand, Supply and Value

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

The Servile State

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Hilaire Belloc


A clear boundary exists between the servile and the non-servile condition of labour, and the conditions upon either side of that boundary ut…

Principles of Economics, Book 3: On Wants and Their Satisfaction

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

The Empire of Business

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Andrew Carnegie


This collection of essays by Scottish-American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie, gathered from various periodicals and first published in…

War Is a Racket

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Smedley Butler


Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, “I served in all commissioned ranks from second lie…

The Eight Pillars of Prosperity (Version 2)

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James Allen


“Prosperity, like a house, is a roof over a man’s head, affording him protection and comfort. A roof presupposes a support, and a support ne…

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

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John Stuart Mill


This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

Eryxias

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Plato


Eryxias (ΕΡΥΞΙΑΣ) may not have been written by Plato (ΠΛΑΤΩΝ). The dialogue discusses whether wealth has value and what the aim of philosoph…

Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth

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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot


"This Essay May be Considered as the Germ of the Treatise on The Wealth of Nations, Written by the Celebrated Smith"—Condorcet's L…

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