A New Political Economy (Classic Reprint)

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from A New Political Economy The Author presents his work to the fair thinking among his countrymen, and especially to the teachers of Economic Science. This volume is the product of years of combined thinking and teaching, and is offered as a modest contribution to the growth of that science which seeks to explain and promote the industrial progress of the world. It is an essentially new statement of the facts and principles of Political Economy. It may seem absurd to expect any new discoveries in a field whose earliest surveys are recorded in the theogonies of India, Egypt, and Greece, and some of whose grandest features were evidently seen by Moses, Plato, and Aristotle. But, though this field has repeatedly and perpetually been under survey by statesmen, publicists, and philosophers, whose attention has been attracted to the causes of human progress and well-being, it is presenting ever fresh phenomena, with the progress of mankind in arts and civilization, and demands, therefore, ever fresh study and statement. Even if the grander features of the great landscape do not change, one who surveys them from some new hill-top, to which his business or his tastes have led him, may be able to present them in new relations and with a fresh perspective. It is in these new relations and this new perspective that the author believes his book will be found essentially new. The fresh views presented are chiefly the following: 1. The clear recognition of the three great economic facts of Wants, Work, and Wealth, as the principal and constant factors of the industries, and as constituting, therefore, the field of Economic 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.