PDF Books in Economics
Supply and Demand
by Sir Hubert Douglas HendersonSupply and Demand is start-up guide to the basis of economics, written by Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson. The author describes in the introductory note that this book is intended for layman’ reading, which would give a generic idea on how the economists apply the principles behind supply and demand for solving economic problems. The difficult area..
Principles Of Political Economy
by John Stuart MillPrinciples Of Political Economy is one of the most redundant text books on political economy, written by the English economist John Stuart Mill, whose notable publications include A Few Words on Non-intervention, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, and A System of Logic. Principles Of Political Economy is categorically subdivide..
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam SmithWritten by the Scottish Philosopher, who has been cited as the "father of modern economics", “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" has become his magnum opus and is one of the fundamental works on classical economics. It is crucial to read this book, especially if you want to know why the contemporary politicians, e..
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
by A. W. DuncanWe may define a food to be any substance which will repair the functional waste of the body, increase its growth, or maintain the heat, muscular, and nervous energy. In its most comprehensive sense, the oxygen of the air is a food; as although it is admitted by the lungs, it passes into the blood, and there re-acts upon the other food which has pas..
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons
by Fredrick AccumA Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy.This Treatise, as its title expresses, is intended to exhibit easy meth..
Adam Smith
by Bryce WaltonEarly in 1793 Dugald Stewart read at two meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his “Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith.” Written with the sympathetic pen of a friend and disciple in the Corinthian style that Stewart loved, the memoir was too good to be superseded. A century passed, and in 1895 appeared Mr. John Rae’s exhaustive Lif..
The Servile State
by Hilaire BellocThis book is written to maintain and prove the following truth:— That our free modern society in which the means of production are owned by a few being necessarily in unstable equilibrium, it is tending to reach a condition of stable equilibrium by the establishment of compulsory labour legally enforcible upon those who do not own the means of prod..
Riches and Poverty
by L. G. Chiozza MoneyThe present edition of "Riches and Poverty" revises my estimates of the distribution of the wealth of the United Kingdom down to the year 1908. The effect of the revision is to show that in the five years that have elapsed since this work was first published, the distribution of wealth has grown even more unequal. The comparative stationariness of ..