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The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind: H. G. Wells: 1932 Non-fiction Banned in the Irish Free State. [167] Men of Good Will: Jules Romains: 1932–1946 Novel Sequence The English translations of Romains' novel sequence were banned in the Irish Free State. [166] The Martyr: Liam O'Flaherty: 1933 Novel Banned in the Irish Free State. [167 ...
The Richest Man in Babylon is a 1926 book by George S. Clason that dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 4,097 years earlier, in ancient Babylon.The book remains in print almost a century after the parables were originally published, and is regarded as a classic of personal financial advice.
The Spirit of Law (French: De l'esprit des lois, originally spelled De l'esprit des loix [1]), also known in English as The Spirit of [the] Laws, is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law by Montesquieu, published in 1748. [2]
Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy, Massachusetts.
The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions is a 2023 book by James White and Victor Haghani. Haghani was a founding partner of Long-Term Capital Management . Vladimir V. Piterbarg wrote "the authors convincingly argue that the Expected Utility framework is the right one for decision making for the bulk of financial decisions."
Wealth Against Commonwealth is a book published by muckraking journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd. It was published after he had written several essays to The Atlantic Monthly concerning issues with dominating monopolies. It was written in an effort to expose the wrongdoings mainly of the monopoly Standard Oil but also discusses others.
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power is a book by political activist and linguist Noam Chomsky. It was created and edited by Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott. It lays out Chomsky's analysis of neoliberalism.
The first major component of Turgot's theory is the importance of land and agriculture. For Turgot, his theories and work were often concerned with "the transformation of society from agricultural feudalism to modern capitalism" and the evolution of society from simply farmers focused on cultivation to the emergence of a new capitalist-entrepreneur class. [5]