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Excerpt from The Challenge of WasteThe wastefulness of the present industrial system has long been subject to attack. Not only have opponents of the existing order drawn attention to its inefficiency, but business men themselves have from time to time denounced certain leakages of the system as indefensible. Thus Mr. Hoover has gathered together a group of engineers who have carefully studied the operation of six i_ndustries - textiles, printi...

Excerpt from Idle Money Idle MenThe adjustment of men to their technical inventions proceeds on various fronts, civil and military, and at varying rates. At some points the adjustment needs to be speeded up if men are not to suffer, at Other points brakes need to be applied. This is the basic theme of practically everything I have ever written. These essays are another contribution to the subject.Natural brakes are found in undeveloped parts o...

Excerpt from Idle Money Idle MenThe adjustment of men to their technical inventions proceeds on various fronts, civil and military, and at varying rates. At some points the adjustment needs to be speeded up if men are not to suffer, at Other points brakes need to be applied. This is the basic theme of practically everything I have ever written. These essays are another contribution to the subject.Natural brakes are found in undeveloped parts o...

A popular approach to semantics in which the author discussess how to clarify the meaning of words and achieve more exact communication. Index

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Excerpt from The Social Responsibility of ManagementIn seeking to sponsor some activity in a field in which the misunderstandings are of major economic and human significance, our Foundation decided upon the field of management relationships. It was felt that one way of bringing the best thought in this field to a point of high visibility would be to underwrite a series of lectures on the social responsibility of management to be delivered at ...

Excerpt from The Nemesis of American Business: And Other EssaysTo the editors of The Saturday Review of Liter ature for The End of an Epoch.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 wh...

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About the Book Books on Business Ethics cover the ethical or moral principles that often arise in the course of undertaking business enterprise. About usTrieste Publishing's aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. Our titles are produced from scans of the original books and as a result may sometimes have imperfections. To ensure a high-quality produ...

Excerpt from The Social Responsibility of Management In seeking to sponsor some activity in a field in which the misunderstandings are of major economic and human significance, our Foundation decided upon the field of management relationships. It was felt that one way of bringing the best thought in this field to a point of high visibility would be to underwrite a series of lectures on the social responsibility of management to be delivered a...

Excerpt from The Challenge of Waste The League for In to the public its second pamphlet in the series, Irrepressible analyzes the social philosophy of the American people in these years follow ing the world war and points out the educational task ahead. The present pamphlet deals with the wastes involved in producing and distributing services and goods under the system of production for profit. These wastes, as the author points out, are bec...

Chase is a social critic and veteran popularizer whose positivism has outlasted his reformist zeal - he makes few radical criticisms or predictions. Ten current trends are analyzed and forecasted here with statistical flourishes. The variables are familiar: conservation, demography, the nature of the economy, the arms race, automation, man's fate. The proposals are also quite reasonable - all students should have a thorough grounding in the "n...

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Stuart Chase (1888-1985) was an Economics graduate from MIT, and this was one of his many publications on the topic of socialism and Economics. The revival in interest in the book came after it was linked, by Glenn Beck, to a Barack Obama 2012 campaign video called "The Road We've Traveled". Beck made several links between Obama's presidential goals and the themes in Chase's book: strong centralized government, Control of banking, credit and s...