Business and Economics Books

Other People's Money, and How the Bankers Use It

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidat..

The Complete Home

Sarah Cory Rippey

Most of us have a theory of what the home should be, but it is stowed away with the wedding gifts of fine linen that are cherished for our permanent abode. We believe in harmony of surroundings, but a..

Problems of Poverty - An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor

John A. Hobson

Introductory note by the author: The object of this volume is to collect, arrange, and examine some of the leading facts and forces in modern industrial life which have a direct bearing upon Poverty, ..

Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx

Benedetto Croce

The Essays in this volume, as will be apparent, have all of them had an occasional origin. They bear evident traces of particular controversy and contain much criticism of authors who are hardly, if a..

Against Home Rule (1912)

S. Rosenbaum

This book, for which I have been asked to write a short preface, presents the case against Home Rule for Ireland. The articles are written by men who not only have a complete grasp of the subjects upo..

Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company is a short non-fiction work by Hudson's Bay Company, a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in..

Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine

Edwin Waugh

Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine is a  by Edwin Waugh, an English poet whose writings include Lancashire Sketches, Poems and Lancashire Songs, Tufts of Heather fr..

Lombard Street - A Description of the Money Market

Walter Bagehot

Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market is written by Walter Bagehot, a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race...