Excerpt from The Premises of Political Economy: Being a Re-Examination of Certain Fundamental Principles A word of explanation is necessary to prevent an erroneous Conception of my purpose. I do not call in question those ultimate facts concerning the physical conditions of external nature of which Ricardo makes so much use, and on which deductive Economics is at present based, but shall endeavor, by the use of other facts equally ultimate in their nature, to prove that many of the leading doctrines now accepted by most economists must be discarded, to give place to other doctrines more in harmony with the real phenomena. 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.