Book Two of Alfred Marshall’s The Principles of Economics examines how human wants and effort shape value and drive progress.
Book I of Alfred Marshall’s The Principles of Economics explores how human effort and cooperation create wealth and define the study of economics.
A Finance Book Club Original: Sam Walton, the man behind Walmart, whose relentless focus on value, efficiency, and community reshaped the fabric of American retail.
Andrew Carnegie’s The Gospel of Wealth explores the moral purpose of money, arguing that true success comes when wealth is guided by wisdom, generosity, and a sense of duty to others.
A Finance Book Club Original: Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Commodore who rose from New York’s harbors to command steamboats and railroads, becoming the richest man in America and shaping the foundations of modern finance and capitalism.
Russell Conwell’s classic lecture Acres of Diamonds teaches that the greatest opportunities for success are often found right where you already stand.
A Finance Book Club Original: Victoria Woodhull & Tennessee Claflin, the sisters who stormed Wall Street, shook American politics, and defied every limit placed on women in the Gilded Age.
P. T. Barnum’s The Art of Money Getting delivers 20 timeless rules for earning, keeping, and enjoying wealth in plain, practical language.
A Finance Book Club Original: David Ricardo, the man who gave the world comparative advantage while reshaping our understanding of trade, rent, and the distribution of wealth.
The final book of The Wealth of Nations, where Adam Smith outlines the duties of government, the principles of fair taxation, and the dangers of debt that still shape modern debates about state and society.
Book IV of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations challenges the logic of mercantilism and reveals why free trade, not hoarded wealth, drives lasting prosperity.
Book III of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations explores how Europe’s economies took shape not through design but through cities rising, land locking, and traditions holding power in place.
A clear look at Book II of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, where capital, labor, and growth begin to shape the structure of modern economies.
An inside look at Book One of Adam Smith’s five-part series, exploring how labor, wages, and trade lay the foundation for modern economics.
A Finance Book Club Original: John D. Rockefeller’s pursuit of discipline and order transformed oil, business, and philanthropy into lasting systems of power and control.
How trust, responsibility, and continual growth shape the businessman’s relationships with creditors, competitors, and the community around him.
A classic on how discipline, integrity, and self-mastery shape not just the businessman, but the business itself.
What if getting what you want has less to do with chasing—and more to do with thinking, believing, and becoming? In this episode, we explore Orison Swett Marden’s 1917 classic How to Get What You Want—a powerful look at desire, discouragement, self-discovery, and the quiet forces that shape success.
A Finance Book Club Original: Philip Fisher’s lifelong pursuit of business truth—how his Scuttlebutt method, long-term focus, and singular way of thinking shaped the greatest investors of our time.
What gives a life its strength? In the final chapters of Self-Help, Samuel Smiles turns inward—exploring money, character, and moral responsibility as the true foundations of personal and national growth. With clarity and conviction, he shows how discipline, self-respect, and quiet duty shape not only individual lives, but the future of a society.
