The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

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The Philosophy of Misery by Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

whatever nature, which the proprietor derives from the loan of his property. Quidquid sorti accrescit usura est, say the theologians. Usury, the foundation of credit, was one of the first of the means which social spontaneity employed in its work of organization, and whose analysis discloses the profound laws of civilization. The ancient philosophers and

Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

Edited by Charles Aldarondo (aldarondo@yahoo.com) LOMBARD STREET A Description of the Money Market. By WALTER BAGEHOT CHAPTER I. Introductory. I venture to call this Essay ‘Lombard Street,’ and not the ‘Money Market,’ or any such phrase, because I wish to deal, and to show that I mean to deal, with concrete realities. A notion prevails

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

This etext was produced by Colin Muir AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. by Adam Smith INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK. The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which

An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus

This etext was produced by Charles Aldarondo Aldarondo@yahoo.com Thomas Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population 1798 AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION, AS IT AFFECTS THE FUTURE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY WITH REMARKS ON THE SPECULATIONS OF MR. GODWIN, M. CONDORCET, AND OTHER WRITERS. LONDON, PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD,