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R. H. Tawney

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism - A Historical Study (1922)

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1922) by R. H. Tawney

Originally published in 1922. From The Holland Memorial Lectures.

From the PREFATORY NOTE

THE friends of the late Henry Scott Holland founded a lectureship in his memory, the Deed of Foundation laying it down that a course of lectures, to be called the Holland M...

Bank for International Settlements

The Constituent Charter (1930)

Constituent Charter (1930) by Bank for International Settlements

Legal texts of the BIS, available on the Bank For International Settlements website. You need to read it to believe it, only four pages long. Essentially these banksters are a law unto themselves, based in neutral Switzerland, on inviolable territory, outside and above all...

Calvin Elliott

Usury; A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View (1902)

Usury; A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View (1902) by Calvin Elliott

TO MY READERS.

I beg the sincere and thoughtful consideration of this book by all its readers. Please follow the argument in the order in which it is presented. This is the way it developed in my own mind and led me, step by step, irresistibly to its conclusions. Do not re...

John Ruskin, 1819-1900

The communism of John Ruskin; or, "Unto this last"; two lectures from "The crown of wild olive"; and selections from "Fors clavigera." (1907)

Unto This Last (1907) by Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

The essay "Unto This Last" profoundly influenced the ideas of Gandhi and labour movements.

http://samisdat.in/books/unto-this-last-1891

From The Introduction

Surely Ruskin n...

Werner Sombart

The Jews and Modern Capitalism (1913)

The Jews and Modern Capitalism (1913) by Werner Sombart

Werner Sombart (1863 -1941) was a German economist and sociologist and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century. Sombart's "The Jews and Modern Capitalism" is an effort similar to Max Weber's historic study of the connection betw...