A History of Political Economy (Classic Reprint)

A History of Political Economy (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Dr. Gustav Cohn
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ISBN: 9781331076933
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Excerpt from A History of Political Economy There is a singular dearth of histories of political economy in the English language. The older works on the subject - McCulloch and Twiss - are valuable and suggestive; but strike the student of to-day rather by what they have not than by what they have. Blanqui's book is rather a history of industrial systems than a treatise on the history of economic science. Dr. Ingram's work is a very useful book, with a special value owing to its emphasis of the sociological point of view; while the new edition of Cossa, invaluable as it is, must be considered rather as a guide to the bibliography of Political Economy than a treatise on its history. All taken together leave the field still fairly open to the scholar who will undertake to give us a comprehensive treatise on the subject, and English literature is still far behind the German, for example, in this respect. In this branch of science, as in some others, moreover, the tone and method of a work are determined very largely by national peculiarities, and whenever a nation has made serious contributions to the literature of any subject falling within the scope of the moral or social sciences, its historians are nearly certain to represent a new point of view, to have a new and fruitful perspective. In no country for the last twenty years has more active and thorough intellectual work been done in the department of political and social science than in Germany, and German scholars have turned out in rapid succession valuable treatises in nearly every department of economics and finance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A History of Political Economy (Classic Reprint)

A History of Political Economy (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Dr. Gustav Cohn
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ISBN: 9781331076933
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Excerpt from A History of Political Economy There is a singular dearth of histories of political economy in the English language. The older works on the subject - McCulloch and Twiss - are valuable and suggestive; but strike the student of to-day rather by what they have not than by what they have. Blanqui's book is rather a history of industrial systems than a treatise on the history of economic science. Dr. Ingram's work is a very useful book, with a special value owing to its emphasis of the sociological point of view; while the new edition of Cossa, invaluable as it is, must be considered rather as a guide to the bibliography of Political Economy than a treatise on its history. All taken together leave the field still fairly open to the scholar who will undertake to give us a comprehensive treatise on the subject, and English literature is still far behind the German, for example, in this respect. In this branch of science, as in some others, moreover, the tone and method of a work are determined very largely by national peculiarities, and whenever a nation has made serious contributions to the literature of any subject falling within the scope of the moral or social sciences, its historians are nearly certain to represent a new point of view, to have a new and fruitful perspective. In no country for the last twenty years has more active and thorough intellectual work been done in the department of political and social science than in Germany, and German scholars have turned out in rapid succession valuable treatises in nearly every department of economics and finance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of Political Economy in Europe (Classic Reprint)

History of Political Economy in Europe (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Jerome-Adolphe Blanqui
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331196092
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Excerpt from History of Political Economy in Europe To attempt a narration of these experiences in Europe from the earliest period - their successes and their fail ures - was the task that M. Blanqui proposed to himself in writing the history under consideration. The result of his labors has been of necessity imperfect, because the material for constructing a complete record does not exist; and because the restriction of the discussion of such material as is available, which the author at the outset seems to have prescribed to himself, namely, two small 12mo volumes (in the French edition), did not admit of the entering at any great length into details, or the accomplishment of much other than the presenta tion of the more important economic transactions in the history of Europe, and the extent of their influences in promoting or retarding the world's material progress and development. Nevertheless the book as it exists to day, with its record terminating in 1842, is in the highest degree instructive, and in a popular sense, exceedingly attractive. It is moreover, one of the comparatively few books published during the last half century which has attained a world-wide reputation, and its translation and present re-publication fills a place, which so far as the observation of the writer extends, is not supplied by any other work in the English language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Researches in the History of Economics (Classic Reprint)

Researches in the History of Economics (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Ernest Nys
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ISBN: 9780267792924
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Excerpt from Researches in the History of Economics Political economy is in truth the creation of what has been called the European genius. To the twelfth and thirteenth centuries of our era is attributed the appearance of this new spirit, in which the experience of former races entered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The National System of Political Economy (Classic Reprint)

The National System of Political Economy (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Friedrich List
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ISBN: 9780243298037
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Excerpt from The National System of Political Economy It was this testimony to the practical influence of List's economical theories which first attracted my attention to his writings, and a perusal of them induced me to undertake the translation of the following work, with a view to affording English readers an opportunity of judging for themselves as to the truth of his statements and the soundness of his argu ments. The work consists of four parts - the History, the Theory, the Systems, and the Politics of National Economy. It is important to bear in mind that all were written before 1844, and the fourth part in particular treats of political circum stances and of commercial policies which have now for the most part ceased to exist. The Corn Laws, the Navigation Laws, and the generally protectionist tariff of Great Britain were then still unrepealed; the manufacturing industry of Germany was still in its infancy, and the comparatively moderate tariff of the German States still permitted England to supply them with the greater part of the manufactured goods which they required. At first sight, therefore, it would seem an anachronism to place before the reader of to-day a work having special re lation to a state of things which existed forty years ago. The principles, however, enunciated by List are in their main features as applicable at one time as at another, and it will be found that they possess two especially powerful claims to consideration at the present moment. In the first place, there is good reason for believing that they have directly inspired the commercial policy of two of the greatest nations of the world, Germany and the United States of America; and in the next, they supply a definite scientific basis for those protectionist doctrines which, al though acted upon by our English-speaking colonies and held by not a few practical men as well as by some com mercial economists in this country, have hitherto been only partially and inadequately formulated by English writers. The fundamental idea of List's theory will be seen to be the free import of agricultural products and raw materials combined with an effective but not excessive protection (by means of customs duties) of native manufacturing industry against foreign competition. According to his views, the most efficient support of native production of agricultural products and raw materials is the maintenance within the nation of flourishing manufacturing industry thus protected. The system which he advocates differs, therefore, on the one hand from the unconditionally free import system of one-sided free trade adopted by England, and on the other from the system now apparently approved by Prince Bismarck, of imposing protective duties on the import of food and raw materials as well as on that of manufactured goods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Political Economy

Political Economy PDF Author: John Bascom
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365280811
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Excerpt from Political Economy: Designed as a d104-Book for Colleges In order to a right apprehension of Political Economy, and of the value of its conclusions, we need to understand its nature and rela tions as a science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An Introduction to the Study of Political Economy (Classic Reprint)

An Introduction to the Study of Political Economy (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Luigi Cossa
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ISBN: 9781330847503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study of Political Economy The favourable reception of the Author's Guide to the Study of Political Economy, translated and published in England and America at the suggestion and under the auspices of the late Professor Jevons, paved the way for an English version of what was begun as a third edition of that work, though it has finally shaped itself into a completely new book. In preparing the following pages, enriched by the author with important changes and valuable additions, both he and the Translator have received much encouragement and aid from the appreciative reviews of the Italian original published in the Journal of the Statistical Society, and in Professor Edgeworth's Economic Journal, as well as from the paragraph devoted to it in the Nation (New York). Following a hint given in the last-named periodical, the Translator has compiled are Index of Subjects; he has also enlarged the Index of Authors, and has added, under the designation of Sources, important anonymous works, periodicals and collections frequently referred to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Outlines of a New Theory of Political Economy (Classic Reprint)

Outlines of a New Theory of Political Economy (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Ackoute Smyth
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484011358
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Excerpt from Outlines of a New Theory of Political Economy The substance of wealth is the produce of labour, and is greater or less according to the quantity of that produce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

National System of Political Economy (Classic Reprint)

National System of Political Economy (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Friedrich List
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ISBN: 9781330803509
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Excerpt from National System of Political Economy Frederick List was born, the 6th August, 1789, at Reutlingen, a free city of Suabia. His early education was incomplete. At the Classical School he exhibited so little taste for its studies, that his father withdrew him; but as he showed equal indisposition to learn his father's business, he was subsequently left to shape his own education. This he did, however, to such purpose, that we find him, in 1816, holding an appointment in the Central Administration of Wurtemberg, in which he justified the confidence placed in him by a distinguished statesman, the Minister Wangenheim, who offered his young assistant, in the following year, the chair of Political Economy, in the University of Tubingen. List accepted this position. He tells us in the Preface to his National System, that the principle of free trade was one of the first encountered in his new career. "It seemed to me at first reasonable; but gradually I satisfied myself that the whole doctrine was applicable and sound only when adopted by all nations. Thus I was led to the idea of nationality; I found that the theorists kept always in view mankind and man, never separate nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Political Economy (Classic Reprint)

Political Economy (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: John Broadhurst
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781440054341
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Excerpt from Political Economy Our writers on Political Economy are all agreed in admitting, that the acquirement of just views of value is an indispensable preliminary to a right understanding of nearly every other subject connected with the science. My first object in this work is to show that all these gentlemen have failed to acquire this preliminary knowledge, and have, in consequence, fallen into a long succession of serious mistakes. I was in the midst of a work embracing all the principal questions in Political Economy, when the depression of our trade, the condition of our working classes, and the impatience of our northern manufacturers for free trade, induced me to divide my work into two parts, in order to publish one immediately in which the question about to come before parliament might be discussed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

First Lessons in Political Economy (Classic Reprint)

First Lessons in Political Economy (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Francis Amasa Walker
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ISBN: 9780484780186
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Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Excerpt from First Lessons in Political Economy This book has been prepared for use in High Schools and Academies. In writing its pages, I have been Well aware that the object sought is the most difficult at which an economist can aim. Whether this effort to reach the minds of pupils of fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years has been successful, will only be learned on actual trial. In preparing a text-book for students in the period of life indicated, I have not thought it necessary to make the work childish. It is no Primer of Political Economy which is here offered but a substantial course of study in this vitally important subject. I can only hope that it will be found that those for whom it has been designed will be able to follow that course to their own satisfaction and with good results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.