9. Has "a good chance in life" much to do with success?
10. What are the chief elements of business success?
11. Is modern business competition a competition of men only?
Chapter 30. Cost of Production
1. What is the cost of a good you have made entirely with your own labor?
2. What is the difference to the employer between rent, interest, and wages as items of cost?
3. Is there anything in common between "cost, the onerous exertion necessary to get goods," and cost as the money expenses of production?
4. Why does a merchant engage in one business rather than in another?
5. When prices fall, what determines which factories shall close, and which workmen shall be discharged?
6. Does the value of a product conform to the capital that has been put into it.