"Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint - critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded...

"By investigating an exemplar headquarters economy--Minneapolis-St. Paul--this volume demonstrates that the talent pool (managers), its movement among companies and industries in a region (mobility), and the of its inflow and outflow from a region (migration), can create a virtuous cycle that...

Getting started in federal income tax -- Identifying gross income -- Specific inclusions in gross income -- Specific exclusions from gross income -- Deductions in general -- Personal deductions -- Business and investment deductions -- Mixed business and personal expenses -- Transactions in...