The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to New Books About Business

’How’s business?‘ This habitual form of greeting between business men may in time give way — if we can believe some of our social and economic prophets — to the new salutation: ’How’s Washington treating you?’ Before this day arrives, business men will do well to give thought to the State. Just what is it ? How does it function? What things can it do? What can it not do? One does not have to wait until some hypothetical to-morrow to discover that the controlling hand of the State pins business down at a thousand points.