This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth...

Newspapers -- Raison d'Être: "The Appetite Grows by What It Feeds On"; 1 Of Discontent, Contractual Wars, and the Birthing of Secular Newspapers in British East Africa, 1899-1905; 2 "Political Apathy Is Commercial Atrophy": The East African Standard and the Interests of the European Press, 1904-1963; 3...

This book offers a structured, deductive approach to Austrian investing, beginning with an analysis of the current investing paradigm. There are five economic concepts on which the Austrian School of Economics has a unique view: Entrepreneurship, Class Probability, Capital, the Interest Rate,...

Understanding wealth—who has it, how they acquired it, how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing challenges facing the United States. Edward Wolff’s account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of U.S. wealth since 1900 provides a sober bedrock of facts and analysis. It...