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Leland Hamilton Jenks

Migration of British Capital to 1875 (1926)

Migration of British Capital to 1875 (1926) by Leland Hamilton Jenks

Preface

Marcus Aurelius, who set the fashion for acknowledgments, was able to trace with brevity yet with care the qualities of which his meditations were the fruit to the friends who had most intimately affected his character and molded his attitude toward life. Were I to be...

Arthur Kitson

Essays in The New Age Magazine (1912-13)

These are three short articles written by Arthur Kitson, lifted from The New Age periodical.

Gold and State Banking (1912)

Published in:The New Age, 1037, Vol.11, No.13, July 25, 1912

THE Oracle has spoken! The Mountain has laboured and brought forth-a Mouse a miserable little spe...

Arthur Kitson

The Trade Slump (1921)

The Trade Slump (1921) by Arthur Kitson

THE present trade slump is not an entirely surprising or unexpected event to certain people. It had been predicted by two or three writers and economists, and particularly by certain financiers more than a year ago, when business was booming, and when there seemed a long period of prosperity before us.

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John T. Flynn

Graft in Business (1931)

Graft in Business (1931) by John T. Flynn

From the Foreword

This book is addressed not to citizens but to people; not to government but to society; not to lawmakers but to businessmen. It is not an indictment; it is a remonstrance. It is not an assault by a foe; but the warning of a friend. It deals with a phase of business which is, in some m...

Collin Brooks

The Economics of Human Happiness (1933)

The Economics of Human Happiness (1933) by Collin Brooks

From the Foreword

There is nothing original in this book. It is, in the best meaning of the term, a commonplace book. If it fails to say for half-a-guinea what a multitude of men are saying in pub and club, tavern and train, for nothing, it will be because I have an impediment in my spee...