Economic Theory Books

The Servile State

Hilaire Belloc

Society having reached such a condition would be released from its present internal strains and would have taken on a form which would be stable: that is, capable of being indefinitely prolonged witho..

Riches and Poverty

L. G. Chiozza Money

While since 1900 nominal or money wages have been at a standstill, the cost of living has continued to rise. The retail cost of food in London rose 9 per cent. in 1900-1908. Therefore British real or ..

A lecture

Victoria Claflin Woodhull

A lecture by Victoria Claflin Woodhull: In the Boston Theater, Boston, U.S.A. October 22, 1876, before 3,000 people. The review of a century; or, the fruit of five thousand years.A hundred years ago, ..

An Illustrated Directory of the Specifications of All Domestic and Foreign Motor-cars

Various Authors

An Illustrated Directory of the Specifications of All Domestic and Foreign Motor-cars and Motor Business Wagons, Gasoline, Steam and Electric, Sold in This Country, 1907..

A Tract on Monetary Reform

John Maynard Keynes

Nowhere do conservative notions consider themselves more in place than in currency; yet nowhere is the need of innovation more urgent. One is often warned that a scientific treatment of currency quest..

Wages in 1873

Thomas Brassey

The reaction against the International Society among the working classes in Belgium originated in a similar cause.  In 1871, during the strike in Flanders, the International was unable to fulfil ..

Behind the Scenes in a Hotel

Anonymous

The labor force required to furnish service in the modern hotel has necessarily increased enormously since the day when the host of the old-time hostel and his family personally cared for the needs of..

A Speech on the Principles of Finance

Victoria C. Woodhull

The superficial student of history cares only for the results of the evolution of nations—for the fact that Sesostris was the greatest of Egyptian kings; or that Semiramis rose by her military sagacit..