This episode moves from the individual to the system.
It covers wealth, philanthropy, trusts, factories, steel, oil and gas, and the industrial forces that reshaped markets and living standards in America.

Published in 1902, The Empire of Business is a collection of essays by Andrew Carnegie on success in the industrial age. This episode covers his views on individual ambition, discipline, thrift, labor and capital, and how personal habits compound into long-term opportunity.

A Finance Book Club Original: Katherine Graham, the leader who printed the Pentagon Papers against pressure and guided the Washington Post through Watergate, cementing the power of a free press.

Book VI of Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics examines how wages, profits, and rent are shared across society and how distribution shapes the character and stability of economic life.

Book V of Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics explores how demand, supply, and value interact to shape prices, wages, and the balance of modern markets.

Book IV of Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics examines how organization and leadership unite land, labor, and capital to power modern production and progress.

Book III of Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics explores how habits, culture, and rising standards of living shape human wants and guide economic progress.

Book II of Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics examines how human wants and effort shape value and drive progress.