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• Economy of the United States

• USA Economy in Brief (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, ca. 2007), contrib. by George Clack (PDF at state.gov)
• The Enterprising Americans: A Business History of the United States (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1991), by John Chamberlain (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West (London: Pluto Press, c2019), by James Parisot (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Capital, State, Empire: The New American Way of Digital Warfare (London: University of Westminster Press, 2017), by Scott Timcke (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America (updated edition; New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway, contrib. by Martin Bronfenbrenner (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Taking a Stand on Poverty (c1991), by Helen P. Rogers (Javascript-dependent HTML at Scribd)
• Triumphant Democracy: or, Fifty Years' March of The Republic (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1886), by Andrew Carnegie (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Choices: Social Dilemmas and Public Policy Since 1960 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), ed. by Robert H. Bremner, Gary W. Reichard, and Richard J. Hopkins (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States (third edition, 1916), by Clément Juglar, ed. by DeCourcy W. Thom (Gutenberg text)
• Checking the Waste: A Story in Conservation (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1911), by Mary Huston Gregory (Gutenberg text)
• The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States, by Charles Richard Van Hise (HTML at LOC)
• 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
• Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty i Rossīi︠a︡ (in Russian; ca. 1915), by N. A. Borodin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Society in America, by Harriet Martineau (HTML at Pfeiffer)
• Society in America (3 volumes; Saunders and Otley, 1837), by Harriet Martineau
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1910), by Edith Abbott, contrib. by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (PDF at McMaster)
• The American Individual Enterprise System: Its Nature, Evolution, and Future (2 volumes; New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1946), by National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Rôle of Agricultural Fluctuations in the Business Cycle (Michigan Business Studies v2 #9; 1930), by Vladimir P. Timoshenko (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Charles A. Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the Progress of Nations, in Productive Industry, Civilization, Population, and Wealth, by Ezra C. Seaman (page images at MOA)
• Footprints of Four Centuries: The Story of the American People (Philadelphia and Chicago: International Publishing Co., 1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at Google)
• Lawless Wealth: The Origin of Some Great American Fortunes (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1908), by Charles Edward Russell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Memorial Story of America: Comprising the Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents Which Make Up the Record of Four Hundred Years From 1492 to 1892 (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. Winston and Co., 1892), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, John Heyl Vincent, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Francis Newton Thorpe, Theodore Sandford Doolittle, Albert Shaw, and Anna Laurens Dawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Own Country: Its History and Achievements, and the Story of Our Great Men and Women (Philadelphia et al.: Monarch Book co., c1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, Francis Newton Thorpe, and Anna Laurens Dawes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Documentary History of American Industrial Society (10 volumes plus 1 supplementary volume; Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1910-1911), ed. by John R. Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene Allen Gilmore, Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV supplement: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org

• Highways of Progress (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1910), by James J. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Question of the Hour, Business Prospects: Address of Charles G. Dawes Before the Chicago Real Estate Board (ca. 1914), by Charles Gates Dawes (page images here at Penn)
• The Fight for Conservation (1910), by Gifford Pinchot (Gutenberg text)
• The Industrial Republic: A Study of the America of Ten Years Hence (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1907), by Upton Sinclair
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • 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
• The Decline of American Capitalism (New York: Covici Friede, c1934), by Lewis Corey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New Deal (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Stuart Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Economic Life, and the Means of its Improvement (third edition; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1930), by Rexford G. Tugwell, Thomas Munro, and Roy Emerson Stryker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Prosperity? Symposium (New York: Vanguard Press; League for Industrial Democracy, 1927), ed. by Harry W. Laidler and Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of Sub-Committees (New York: Republican National Committee, 1920), by Republican National Committee (U.S.) Advisory Committee on Policies and Platform
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Toward a Dynamic America: The Challenge of a Changing World (Headline Books #31; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1941), by Marquis W. Childs and William T. Stone, illust. by Graphic Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is Plenty Too Much for the Common People? (second edition; San Gabriel, CA: F. H. Kirkpatrick, 1940), by George R. Kirkpatrick, illust. by Art Young
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Understanding American Business (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Humphrey B. Neill and Howard M. Cool (page images at HathiTrust)
• Break the Economic and Political Sabotage of the Monopolists (ca. 1937), by Alex Bittelman (PDF at flvc.org)
• Why I Am a Socialist (ca. 1936), by Norman Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stop Fascism (ca. 1934), by New America (Organization) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• America for the People! Why We Need a Farmer Labor Party (ca. 1933), by Benjamin Gitlow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Looking Forward (c1933), by Franklin D. Roosevelt (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)
• Why I Am a Socialist (ca. 1932), by Norman Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Problems in American Democracy (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1922), by Thames Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Settlement Houses and the Great Depression (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975), by Judith Ann Trolander (page images at Cornell)
• What Price Federal Reserve? (New York: Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter, 1938), by N. W. Rogers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Is the World Going Red? Is Capitalism Doomed? Will Socialism Prevail? Is Communism or Fascism Just Around the Corner? When Will the Working Classes Get Justice and Security? (Mountain View, CA et al.: Pacific Press Publishing Assn., c1935), by Alonzo L. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prosperity: Fact or Myth, by Stuart Chase (HTML and page images at LOC)
• People at Work (New York: The John Day Co., c1934), by Frances Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
• Letters to Judd, an American Workingman (Pasadena, CA: The author, ca. 1926), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Communism and the Social Order (New York: Communist League of Struggle, 1934), by Albert Weisbord (HTML at weisbord.org)
• Problems in American Democracy, by Thames Williamson (Gutenberg text)
• The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen (PDF at McMaster)

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