Author: Charles Gide

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-27

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 9781330429556

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Excerpt from First Principles of Political Economy In writing this little book my aim has not been to give an outline of economic science, and still less to compile a text-book for students. I have written it for those who have never studied political economy, and I wish simply to inspire them with the desire to do so. Consequently they will find here scarcely any definitions or discussions or descriptions of actual problems, but merely a few sketches of primitive sociological ideas in their origin and development, showing how they have gradually taken shape in the minds of men and have been worked out in their institutions. There are not more than a dozen of these ideas which constitute the groundwork of political economy. My thanks are due to Mr Row, whose translation is both faithful and elegant. A few passages of the original French have been modified to make them more intelligible to the English reader where facts had been illustrated by examples referring specially to France. 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.

Download or read book First Principles of Political Economy written by Charles Gide and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Principles of Political Economy In writing this little book my aim has not been to give an outline of economic science, and still less to compile a text-book for students. I have written it for those who have never studied political economy, and I wish simply to inspire them with the desire to do so. Consequently they will find here scarcely any definitions or discussions or descriptions of actual problems, but merely a few sketches of primitive sociological ideas in their origin and development, showing how they have gradually taken shape in the minds of men and have been worked out in their institutions. There are not more than a dozen of these ideas which constitute the groundwork of political economy. My thanks are due to Mr Row, whose translation is both faithful and elegant. A few passages of the original French have been modified to make them more intelligible to the English reader where facts had been illustrated by examples referring specially to France. 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.