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Economics -- United States.

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• Economics, From the Dismal Science to the Moral Science: The Moral Economics of Kendall P. Cochran (second edition; Denton, TX: University of North Texas Libraries, 2015), ed. by Susan McHargue Dadres, Mona S. Hersh-Cochran, and David J. Molina (HTML and PDF at unt.edu)

• The Spirit of American Economics: A Study in the History of Economic Ideas in the United States Prior to the Great Depression (with a supplement on the development of Canadian economic ideas; New York: Committee on the Study of Economic Thought, dist. by the John Day Co., c1943), by J. F. Normano, contrib. by Arthur R. M. Lower (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Short History of American Capitalism (c2002), by Meyer Weinberg (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Deborah A. Rosen (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry, by Burton J. Hendrick (Gutenberg text)
• A History of American Manufactures from 1608 To 1860: Exhibiting the Origin and Growth of the Principal Mechanic Arts and Manufactures, From the Earliest Colonial Period to the Adoption of the Constitution; and Comprising Annals of the Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures and Useful Arts, With a Notice of the Important Inventions, Tariffs, and the Results of Each Decennial Census (2 volumes; Philadelphia: E. Young and Co., 1861-1864), by J. Leander Bishop, contrib. by Edwin T. Freedley and Edward Young
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II: page images at HathiTrust
• A History of American Manufactures from 1608 To 1860: Exhibiting the Origin and Growth of the Principal Mechanic Arts and Manufactures, from the Earliest Colonial Period to the Adoption of the Constitution; And Comprising Annals of the Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures and Useful Arts, With a Notice of the Important Inventions, Tariffs, and the Results of Each Decennial Census (third edition, 3 volumes; Philadelphia: E. Young and Co.; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1868), by J. Leander Bishop, contrib. by Edwin T. Freedley and Edward Young (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Jet Makers: The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972, by Charles D. Bright (illustrated HTML at generalatomic.com)

• Slipstream: The Autobiography of an Air Craftsman (New York et al.: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1950), by Eugene E. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Distribution of Labor In War (1918), by Edward Gray (page images here at Penn)

• Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850 (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1932), by Henry Walcott Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850 (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1932), by Henry Walcott Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850 (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1932), by Henry Walcott Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Politics of Business in California, 1890-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1977), by Mansel G. Blackford (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Pictorial Booklet on Early Jamestown Commodities and Industries (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #23; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by J. Paul Hudson, illust. by Sidney E. King
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change (originally published 1975; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Louis Galambos, contrib. by Barbara Barrow Spence (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008), by Ludwig Von Mises (PDF with commentary at mises.org)
• Reindustrialization: The Menace Behind the Promise (1981), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (c2006), by Peter Barnes (PDF with commentary at capitalism3.com)
• Toward Soviet America (special edition printed for International Publishers by Coward-McCann, c1932), by William Z. Foster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Better Times! (second edition; New York: Samisch and Goldmann, 1884), by Adolf Douai (page images at Columbia)
• Two-Factor Theory: The Economics of Reality, by Louis O. Kelso and Patricia Hetter Kelso (PDF at kelsoinstitute.org)
• American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Ruth Colker (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Decline of American Capitalism (New York: Covici Friede, c1934), by Lewis Corey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prospects of American Capitalism (New York: Organization Pub. Co., ca. 1935), by B. J. Field
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Public Assets, Private Profits: Reclaiming the American Commons in an Age of Market Enclosure, by David Bollier (PDF at learcenter.org)
• The American Campaign to Suppress Islam, by Hizb ut-Tahrir (PDF at hizb-ut-tahrir.se)

• The Granger Movement; A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (reprint; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1963), by Solon J. Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Granger Movement: A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (Harvard Historical Studies v19; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913), by Solon J. Buck (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The End of Economic Growth (2006), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity (New York: Roosevelt Institute, c2015), by Joseph E. Stiglitz, contrib. by Nell Abernathy, Adam Hersh, Susan Holmberg, and Mike Konczal (PDF with commentary at rooseveltinstitute.org)
• The Ideal Deal: How Local Governments Can Get More for Their Economic Development Dollar (Washington: Good Jobs First; Chicago: University of Chicago Center for Urban Economic Development, c2007), by Rachel Nicole Weber and David Santacroce (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (1999), by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins (PDF files and partial HTML with commentary at natcap.org)

• Race Differences in Income (1970), by Albert J. Wohlstetter and Sinclair B. Coleman
  • HTML at rand.org
  • PDF at rand.org
• Distribution of Income in the United States (SLID research tract #5; New York: Student League for Industrial Democracy, c1955), by Gabriel Kolko (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Individualism (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Herbert Hoover
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Google
• Screen Guide for Americans, by Ayn Rand (PDF page images at MSU)

• Let's Fight Communism a New Way (New York: Vantage Press, c1956), by William Kochneff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great American Industries (4 volumes; Chicago: A. Flanagan, c1896-1914), by W. F. Rocheleau (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Underground Economy (originally published 1984; this edition c2003), by Hans F. Sennholz (PDF with commentary at mises.org)

• Chicago Race Riots (Chicago: Great Western Pub. Co., c1919), by Harrison George
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Utilization of Corporate Profits in Prosperity and Depression (Michigan Business Studies v9 #4; 1941), by Othel J. Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Property (2 volumes; Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2012), by Christian Turner
  • Volume 1: multiple formats with commentary at cali.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats with commentary at cali.org

• Capitalism Versus Socialism, by Daniel De Leon and William H. Berry (PDF at slp.org)
• Plutocracy or Nationalism: Which? (an extra of The Nationalist; 1889), by Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer (Washington: Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2016), by Dean Baker (multiple formats with commentary at deanbaker.net)
• The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive (Washington: Center for Economic and Policy Research, c2011), by Dean Baker (multiple formats at cepr.net)
• History of the Great American Fortunes (3 volumes; Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1910), by Gustavus Myers
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, by Dean Baker (multiple formats at deanbaker.net)
• Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our lives, by Sam Pizzigati (PDF files with commentary at greedandgood.org)

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