Economics: Classic Works

1962 edition, with a new introduction by Frank C. Genovese, of work originally published in 1873.

This is the first biography of Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian, soldier in both world wars, and leader of the Resistance, who was captured, tortured, and died a heroic death. Based largely on Bloch's private letters, diaries and papers, as well as on other unpublished documents, it traces the remarkable life of this French-Jewish patriot under the Third Republic.

See vol. 1, chap. 6, pp. 224-277:
BlocH, Marc. The Rise of Dependent Cultivation and Seignorial Institutions.

Concentrates on patterns of industrial growth and competitiveness in three leading industrial nations -- the United States, Germany, and Great Britain.

This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies -- du Pont, General Motors, Standard Oil (New Jersey), and Sears, Roebuck.

1990 reprint with a new introduction by the author. Online via EBSCOhost eBook Collection.

The role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.

Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy—labor, capital, and political structure—the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the "new economic history." Fogel's work is distinguished by the application of economic theory and large-scale quantitative evidence to long-standing historical questions. These sixteen essays reveal, by example, the continuing vitality of Fogel's approach.

In the classic bestseller, "Capitalism and Freedom," Milton Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism: the organization of economic activity through private enterprise operating in a free market as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.

Concerned primarily with certain methodological problems that arise in constructing the "distinct positive science" that John Neville Keynes called for, in particular, the problem how to decide whether a suggested hypothesis or theory should be tentatively accepted as part of the "body of systematized knowledge concerning what is."