Introduction: What is the idea? -- The beginning of business -- What I learned about business -- Starting the real business -- The secret of manufacturing and serving -- Getting into production -- Machines and men -- The terror of the machine -- Wages -- Why not always have good business? -- How cheaply can things be made? -- Money and goods -- Money: master or servant? -- Why be poor? -- The tractor and power farming -- Why charity? -- The railroads -- Things in general -- Democracy and industry -- What we may expect.

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