Excerpt from A Survey of Political Economy Many writers are able to boast that they have set forth their science as it will always be. I can make no such boast, for while I write Political Economy changes. My apology for essaying, in these circumstances, such a task as is implied in the title A Survey of Political Economy, rests on the possibility of this modest work turning atten tion to others more exhaustive, on the absence of any book conceived on the same plan, and on an intense desire, which is not of yesterday, to see Political Economy divested of many fallacies, not the less false because sometimes harsh and degrading. The following pages are based on a series of articles which I contributed to the Scotsman newspaper. 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.