This section is from the book "Elementary Economics", by Charles Manfred Thompson. Also available from Amazon: Elementary Economics.
In the brief lists that follow, the standard college texts referred to at the close of each chapter are listed as a matter of convenience, together with additional titles, under General Economics. In choosing the rest of the titles, the author has attempted to confine himself to what are coming to be known as "economic problems." Those best adapted to beginners are marked with an asterisk [*]. The rest may profitably be studied by teachers and business men; also by advanced pupils.
I. General Economics
*Bullock, C. J.: An Introduction to the Study of Economics. *Carver, T. N.: Principles of Political Economy.
Clark, J. B.: The Distribution of Wealth.
Commons, J. R.: The Distribution of Wealth. *Ely, R. T.: Outlines of Economics. *Fetter, F. A: Economics. *Fisher, Irving: Elementary Principles of Economics.
Gide, Charles: Principles of Political Economy.
Gide, Charles: Political Economy. *Johnson, A. S.: Introduction to Economics.
Marshall, Alfred: Principles of Economics.
Mill, J. S.: The Principles of Political Economy.
Patten, S. N.: The Premises of Political Economy. *Seager, H. R.: Principles of Economics. *Seligman, E. R. A.: Principles of Economics.
Smith, Adam: Wealth of Nations. *Taussig, F. W.: Principles of Economics. *Walker, F. A.: Elementary Course in Political Economy.
Walker, F. A.: Political Economy.
II. Money, Banking, and Public Finance
Bullock, C. J.: The Monetary History of the United States. Cannon, J. G.: Clearing Houses.
*Clare, George: The A B C of the Foreign Exchanges.
Conant, C. A.: The Principles of Money and Banking.
Conant, C. A.: History of Modern Banks of Issue.
Dewey, D. R.: Financial History of the United States.
Fisher, Irving: The Purchasing Power of Money.
Fisher, Irving: Why the Dollar Is Shrinking.
Fiske, A. K.: The Modern Bank.
Hepburn, A. B.: Contest for Sound Money. *Holdsworth, J. T.: Money and Banking. *Johnson, J. F.: Money and Currency.
Jones, E. D.: Economic Crises.
Kemmerer, E. W.: Postal Savings.
Kemmerer, E. W.: The A B C of the Federal Reserve System.
Kinley, David: Money - A Study of the Theory of the Medium of Exchange.
Laughlin, J. L.: History of Bimetallism in the United States.
MacGregor, T. D.: The Book of Thrift.
Noyes, A. D.: Financial Chapters of the War. *Scott, W. A.: Money and Banking. *White, Horace: Money and Banking. *Willis, H. P.: The Federal Reserve.
Willis, H. P.: History of the Latin, Monetary Union.
III. Labor
*Abbott, Edith: Women in Industry.
* Adams, T. S., and Sumner, Helen: Labor Problems.
Butler, E. B.: Women and the Trades. *Carlton, F. T.: The History and Problems of Organized Labor.
Commons, J. R.: Labor and Administration.
Ely, R. T.: The Labor Movement in America.
Gilbert, Eleanor: The Ambitious Woman in Business.
Gilman, C. P.: Women and Economics.
Goldmark, Josephine: Fatigue and Efficiency.
Groat, G. G.: An Introduction to the Study of Organized Labor in America.
Hollander, J. H., and Barnett, G. E.: Studies in American Trade Unionism.
Laidler, H. W.: Boycotts and the Labor Struggle.
Mangold, G. B.: Problems of Child Welfare.
*McLean, Anna M.: Wage-Earning Women. *Mitchell, John: Organized Labor. *Shadwell, Arthur: Industrial Efficiency.
Spargo, John: The Bitter Cry of the Children.
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice: Industrial Democracy.
IV. Immigration
Commons, J. R.: Races and Immigrants in America. *Fairchild, H. P.: Immigration.
Hall, P. F.: Immigration and its Effects on the United States. *Hourwich, I. A.: Immigration and Labor.
Jenks, J. W., and Lauck, W. J.: The Immigration Problem.
Roberts, Peter: The New Immigration. *Warne, Frank: The Immigrant Invasion.
V. Socialism and Social Insurance
Angell, Norman: The British Revolution and the American Democracy.
Brooks, J. G.: The Social Unrest.
Brooks, J. G.: American Syndicalism.
Cross, I. B.: The Essentials of Socialism. *Ely, R. T.: Socialism and Social Reform.
Engels, Frederick: Socialism, Utopian and Scientific.
Ghent, W. J.: Mass and Class. *Henderson, C. R.: Industrial Insurance in the United States.
Hillquit, Morris: Socialism in Theory and Practice. *Hillquit, Morris: History of Socialism in the United States.
Hillquit, Morris, and Ryan, J. A.: Socialism, Promise or Menace ?
Hughan, J. W.: American Socialism of the Present Day.
Hunter, Robert: Socialists at Work.
Hunter, Robert: Violence and the Labor Movement.
Kautsky, Karl: The Social Revolution.
Macdonald, J. R.: The Socialistic Movement.
Mallock, W. H.: A Critical Examination of Socialism.
Marx, Karl: Capital.
Myers, W. S.: Socialism and American Ideals.
Nearing, Scott: Income.
O'Neal, James: Militant Socialism.
Ryan, J. A.: A Living Wage.
Sellars, R. W.: The Next Step in Democracy.
Skelton, O. D.: Socialism, a Critical Analysis. *Spargo, John: Socialism.
Spargo, John: Capitalist and Labor.
Spargo, John: The Substance of Socialism.
Spargo, John: Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism and Socialism.
Spargo, John: The Socialists, Who They Are and What They Stand For. *Vaughan, (Father) Bernard: Socialism from the Christian Standpoint.
Veblen, Thorstein: The Theory of the Leisure Class.
Walling, W. E.: Socialism as It Is. *Wells, H. G.: New Worlds for Old.
VI. Tariff
Ashley, Percy: Modern Tariff History.
Ashley, W. J.: The Tariff Problem.
Eaton, A. M.: Free Trade and Protection.
Morgan, J. E.: Selected Articles on Free Trade and Protection.
Patten, S. N.: The Economic Basis of Protection.
Pierce, Franklin: The Tariff and the Trusts.
*Stanwood, Edward: American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century.
Sumner, W. G.: Protectionism. *Tarbell, Ida M.: The Tariff in Our Times. *Taussig, F. W.: Tariff History of the United States.
Taussig, F. W.: State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff.
Taussig, F. W.: Some Aspects of the Tariff Question.
VII. Trusts
Menks, J. W.: The Trust Problem,.
Lloyd, H. D.: Wealth against Commonwealth.
Montague, G. H.: The Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Company. *Moody, John: The Truth about the Trusts. *Tarbell, Ida, M.: The History of the Standard Oil Company.
 
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