hardcover, by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch — After years of booming business and unbelievable wealth creation, the economy has slowed, stunned by a mortgage crisis that has only reinforced the notion of big businesses as insatiable masters of the universe with little regard for the public. The critics of capitalism have emerged from every corner to harangue those who create wealth with charges of greed, thievery, and[...]
paperback, by Ethan Gutmann — In 1998, Ethan Gutmann arrived in Beijing in search of the New China. Formerly the chief correspondent for a television documentary series, Gutmann rapidly made his way into the expatriate community of American entrepreneurs. In this well-catered equivalent of a commercial boot camp, newly arrived recruits were indoctrinated in the creed that China's growing strength presented untapped[...]
paperback, by Richard Korman — Long before the Robber Barons made America into an international economic power, a generation of visionary inventors gambled on innovations they hoped would bring them riches. Chief among them was Charles Goodyear, who, in the 1830s, began his obsessive quest to find the recipe for rubber, a material he believed would change the world. In chasing his dream, Goodyear entered a Dickensian[...]
