Early Economics and Business

This CD contains 53 classic books on economics and business, including works by Adam Smith, Marx, Engels, and Henry Ford.

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Table of Contents

• General
• Bank of the Manhattan Company
• Consumer's Cooperative Societies in New York State, 1922 by the Consumers' League of New York
• The Story of Crisco
• P.T. Barnum
• The Art of Money Getting
• M. Frederic Bastiat
• Essays on Political Economy, 1874
• Sophisms of the Protectionists
• Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
• American Woman's Home or Principles of Domestic Science
• John Bookwalter
• If Not Silver, What?  1896
• George Brooks (founder of the California Insurance Company)
• The Spirit of 1906
• Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
• Business Hints for Men and Women
• Herbert Casson
• The History of the Telephone
• Marcus Porcius Cato
• Roman Farm Management
• Daniel Defoe
• An Essay Upon Projects
• Seymour Eaton
• Up-to-Date Business
• Edison
• Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
• Calvin Elliott
• Usury, a Scriptural, Ethical, and Economics View
• Frederick Engels
• The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 by Frederick Engels
• Frank Albert Fetter
• Modern Economic Problems, volume 2
• Henry Ford
• My Life and Work
• Elinor Glyn
• The Price of Things
• James Hartness
• Industrial Progress and Human Economics
• Hubert Henderson
• Supply and Demand, 1922
• Clement Juglar
• A Brief History of Panics
• James Kennedy
• Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions
• Chauncey Jones
• History of the American Clock Business for the Past 60 Years, 1860
• Mildred Maddox
• The Consumer Viewpoint
• W.H. Mallock
• A Critical Examination of Socialism by W.H. Mallock, 1908
• Helen Marot
• Creative Impulse in Industry
• Karl Marx
• Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
• The Communist Manifesto (short)
• The Marx He Knew by John Spargo
• William Morris
• Signs of Change
• Gustavus Myers
• Great Fortunes from Railroads
• George O'Brien
• An Essay on Medieval Economic Teaching
• James Parton
• Captains of Industry
• Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
• American Negro Slavery
• Joseph-Pierre Proudhon
• The Evolution of Capitalism, System of Economic Contradictions or the Philosophy of Misery
• What Is Property?
• Ellen H. Richards
• The Cost of Shelter
• William Sangster
• Umbrellas and Their History
• Walter Dill Scott
• Increasing Human Efficiency in Business
• Upton Sinclair
• The Profits of Religion
• Samuel Smiles
• Men of Invention and Industry
• Thrift
• Adam Smith
• The Wealth of Nations
• Life of Adam Smith by John Rae
• Frederick Taylor
• Principles of Scientific Managment
• Shop Management
• Emile Walter
• What Is Free Trade? 1867
• Andrew Dickinson White
• Fiat Money Inflation in France
• Oscar Wilde
• The Soul of Man Under Socialism
• William Klapp Williams
• The Communes of Lombardy
• Hartley Withers
• International Finance