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The article presents an in-depth analysis of the archives of the Brown family, collected at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. In it the business activities of the family from the 18th to 20th centuries are charted. Comments are given highlighting the historical value of the papers, citing their remarkable comprehensiveness for such a long period. Issues addressed within the collection include records of business conditions and transactions during the Revolutionary War, the transitions in international business networks after the war, and the family's Western frontier land speculation ventures during the 19th-century.

The article provides information on the life and works of George Jason Streator, a greenhouse and nursery entrepreneur in the U.S. Streator was born in Shalersville Township at Portage County, Ohio on July 23, 1846. He lived his youth in Michigan but returned to Garrettsville in 1870 as a young man to establish a greenhouse and nursery business. He has developed 3 horticultural plants known as Portage Gooseberry, the Streator Corn and the Cardinal Strawberry. He developed interest in the study of the land and fresh-water shells and the wild flowers as a hobby. Streator was an active member of the Portage County Horticultural Society and a founder of the Garrettsville Scientific and Antiquarian Society. He died in California in 1925.

The article presents a list of books and papers about industrial management. The books and papers include "Guidelines for Global Business," published in the "Columbia Journal of World Business," "19th Century Ideology and 20th Century Reality," published in the "Columbia Journal of World Business," "The Emerging Pattern of the Multinational Corporation," by Ernest W. Ogram, "The Global Businessman," edited by Charlies F. Stewart, "Management: Theory and Practice," by Ernest Dale and "Readings in Management," by Ernest Dale.

A conference paper about businesses' view of advertising policy is presented. The author believes that advertising policy in its design is meant to hinder business enterprises. According to the author, policy makers believe that business practices such as product differentiation, trade marking and advertising are designed to create monopolies.

Retail coupons, those small cards or slips of paper that offer the supermarket shopper a few cents off on this product or that, have come of age. They are no longer a nickel-and-dime business. Billions of them are distributed each year by grocery product manufacturers. Millions of dollars worth are redeemed, too, sometimes with tremendous impact on a manufacturer's marketing program. Here are some interesting data about coupons and what makes them so attractive to the contemporary, value conscious shopper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a list of research papers on foreign economic history. Some of the research papers are "The Influence of the Manufacturers Upon the Early Policies of William Pitt," by W. Bowden, "The Huterian Communities," by B.W. Clark, "The Rise of the Rural Standard of Living in the Punjab," by M. Darling, "Notes Sur Let Russie: Faits et Obsercations Économiques," by B. Ellacheff, "The Sale of Corn in the Nineteenth Century," by C.R. Fay, "China in Transition," by D. Torrance, "The Economic Function of the Rhine," by J. Levainville, "Propaganda Argentina en AmÉrica," by I.R. Moreno, "The Agrarian Phase of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920," by H. Phipps. "The Economic Activities of the Falkiand Islands," by C.F. Jones, "Our English Villages," by L. Ernle, "The English Workingmen and the American Civil War," by J.H. Park, "Financial and Monetary Policy of Great Britain During the Napoleonic Wars," by N.J. Silberling, "The Maritime and Rural Life of Norway," by C. Vallaux.

This article focuses on a working model of the financial dynamics of a business. In this paper the authors do not propose to analyze whether traditional accounting statements portray the true financial picture. Nor is there need to elaborate on the time and labor required for the compilation of modern accounting statements. With few exceptions, businessmen consider them excessive, although many in the accounting field disagree. An extension of the method suggested here has made possible the successful solution of complicated accounting problems taken from CPA examinations in less than one-third the usual time. The proposed analytical model for depicting the financial situation is a geometrical construction that combines three standard accounting presentations, the Balance Sheet, Operating Statement, and Application of Funds. The model is intended to simplify the accounting task and give management, after familiarization with its different form, a readily understandable and more complete concept of the financial interrelations within the business.

The article focuses on John English who was a member of a family of needle manufacturer in Feckenham village. English was the most remarkable member of a family whose needle-making business survived at Feckenham, a village near Redditch, Worcestershire, for over 170 years. English had personal charge of it for more than half a century until his death on January 31, 1876 at the age of 88. The article is based on the original, unpublished source material in the English Collection at Redditch Public Library and the Gutch Archives, at Worcester Record Office. Together these form a vast collection of personal papers, deeds, business ledgers, correspondence, bills and many other items. Job English founded the business about 1750, at a time when the Needle District of East Worcestershire and West Warwickshire was becoming the most important centre of production in Great Britain for needles and fishhooks. London, England and subsequently Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire had been the important centres of needle making in earlier times.

This article presents information on public rules for private accounting in France in 1673 and 1807. As per the rules of Ordinance of 1673 some designated classes of `business men were required to "keep books." Public regulation, "on paper" at least, extended to the making of rules as to the books to be kept, forms to be observed in the making of entries, authentication by a public official as a means to the prevention of the crudest kind of falsifications, the making of periodic inventories, and the preservation of correspondence. The rules for authentication of the books of exchange dealers and bankers pear a little more strict than those for the authentication of the books of tradesmen and merchants. However as per the accounting rules of commercial code 1807 every business man was required to have a journal which presents day by day his accounts receivable and payable, the operations of his business, acceptances and endorsements of commercial paper, and in general everything which he receives and pays, under whatever head it may be.

Research on futures markets during the last 40 years has produced results that have required drastic revision or replacement of a great part of the previously accepted theory of futures markets and of the behavior, not only of futures prices, but of the general class of prices that may be called anticipatory. New light has been thrown on the behavior of businessmen, including speculators and on the functioning of the price system. To say that new theory has been required poorly expresses consequences of the research, because main results have not been theory in the usual economic sense of that term. The chief result of the research to be considered here has been the emergence of a series of new concepts arising from observation and statistical analysis. Empirical research has played a leading role in the advancement of economic knowledge and understanding that is described here, but the role has been a different one than economists have ordinarily thought that such research would play in advancing their science, if economics be a science. The practical question of economic usefulness of futures markets is only incidentally referred to in the present paper, in as much as the concern here is to trace the advance of economic understanding rather than to discuss practical uses of such understanding.

The article presents a list of abstracts related to administrative science, including a study of businessmen in the year 1900, a study about management principles in public welfare administration, and an evaluation of a supervisory selection program.

The article presents a section of abstracts related to marketing research. They include "An Interest Test for Route Salesmen and Mechanics," "Failures Decline to a New Low," and "Cost of Living Indexes in Wartime."

The article discusses the professional career of the economist Louis D. H. Weld. Weld graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1905 and received his Ph.D from Columbia University in 1908. After receiving his doctorate, he taught at several colleges and universities including the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania from 1908-1917. In 1917, Weld was hired by Swift and Company, the leading marketer of livestock, meat, and related products, for the task of preparing the company's defense in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's investigation in the livestock industry and to present a clear picture of the marketing services rendered by the company. Several texts written by Weld are mentioned in the article.

The article presents information on power motivation and the political personality. The common assumption, reflected in many political biographies and in popular writing, is that the quest for power propels many into politics and is a most likely explanation for much of the politician's activity. The political man accentuates power, demands power for the self, accentuates expectations concerning power, and acquires at least a minimum proficiency in the skills of power. Little empirical work has been done in the field, for valid measures of power motivation have not been available. In recent years however, psychologists have developed a projective test that taps power motivation as well as achievement and affiliative motivation. They have given the test to experimental groups, students, businessmen, and armed forces personnel, and to a nationwide sample. One of the developers of the test has used it to expound a unique psychological theory of economic development. This paper applies the test for the first time to politicians. Simply being a politician does not entail a distinctive concern for power, or for achievement or affiliation. For the communities studied our data show that businessmen in local politics do not differ in motivation from politically inactive businessmen. However, patterns of political and nonpolitical opportunities in different communities, and the distribution of opportunities among political offices, are related to the motivational make-up of officeholders.

Discusses French trade history during the American war for independence, 1776-1783, in light of the Boulton and Watt papers in Great Britain. The hazards challenging 18th century merchants trading overseas; Entry of the 'Steam Engine Parliament' into the shipping business; The business of Bouton and Wattt, selling steam pumping engines to Cornish mine proprietors, in collaboration with John Wilkinson, the chief supplier of heavy castings, operating at Bersham iron works; The issue of Wilkinson supplying canons to France; The problem of shipping equipment to French industrialists during war-time controls; Watt's contact in government, William the second earl of Dartmouth; Vessels used to transport engines; Influence of brothers Jacques Constantin Perier and Augustin Charles Perier.

Presents a list of business histories and biographies of business men published in 1960-1961. "Crombies of Grandholm and Cathal, 1805-1960: Records of an Aberdeenshire Enterprise," by John Robertson Allan; "Mines in the Spinifex: the Story of Mount Isa Mines," by Geoffrey Blainey; "The Sun Insurance Office, 1710-1960," by P. G. M. Dickson; Others.

The article discusses a study on the measurement of the attitudes of students towards selected financial reporting practices. Results indicated that students are more familiar with concepts such as generally accepted accounting principles, comparability, consistency and uniformity. This is because of the students' academic preparation and exposure to the professional literature. However, the findings of the study raised doubt with regard to the effectiveness of the use of students as surrogates for businessmen in research.