Excerpt from Big Business and Government Therefore I will here set down in the order of their occurrence a few instructive stories from personal experience with fairly big business, in which I was engaged for many years; with short studies Of a few typical Trusts, followed by a brief tabular exposition of the actual achievement as shown by their market values, quoted in Wall Street, Of all the great industrial, railway and public service corporations which are popularly supposed to have a strangle-hold upon our national life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Business of Government in the State of California If a man in business is successful his family and trade associates benefit, and, if he is the right kind of a man, his community-also; if he fails, then only he, his family and his creditors are directly affected, and, in a long sense, the community, too, perhaps, in not receiving that which might have been given to it under a' happier circumstance. But in, any event, the result is not widespread. Nor is it much greater in the case of a corporation, no matter how large. Government Affects All The, situation is distinctly different, however, when it comes to the opera tions of a government. All the people are concerned. Such an institution does not engage in the business of government for the purpose of earning money for itself, but - Socialism to the contrary notwithstanding - to bring about and maintain conditions so that the people who compose it may, among other things, earn money for themselves. Thus its universal power to aid or harm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Government Control of Business A private company could give the public a far better less cost, and if unregulated by the Government could service pay. If it were not that handling of the mails h been accepted as a function of the Government, we shoul off if it could be transferred to private management. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Written in nontechnical terms, Big Business and the Wealth of Nations explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies in the twentieth century. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared in American and West European manufacturing, to the present. These essays, written by internationally known historians and economists, help one to understand the essential role and functions of big businesses, past and present.

Excerpt from The Business Record of a Business Government To no matter affecting the progress of the people of British Columbia has the Provincial Government paid more attention than to that of education. Indeed, it may be said that the entire department has been reorganized, mainly 1n the direction of vesting to a very large extent all local responsi bility in boards of school trustees. Thus, with few excep tions, including remote and thinly settled localities, the school districts into which the province is divided have been given power to assess themselves for the maintenance of the schools. The local departments are, of course, to some extent subject to the regulations of the general Department of Education, but the result has been a very markedly beneficial one, tending towards a higher system of education, with greatly improved facilities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Business and the Government, Vol. 24: Written for the Alexander Hamilton Institute This book will have served a good end if this revela tion Of the relations Of business and Government, by wakening the consciousness Of Opportunity, shall make clear the fact that good business and community service are one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.