Download or read book Elementary Political Economy (Classic Reprint) written by A. B. Meservey and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elementary Political Economy Of all the sciences Political Economy is one of the most important. It is the foundation of public and private prosperity. Hence, every person who is to be a citizen of this Republic should have a good knowledge of the elementary principles of Political Economy. It should be one of the prescribed studies in the public schools, but it has seldom been taught outside of colleges and the higher seminaries. It has always been considered a most intricate subject, and hence to be attempted only at the close of a long course of study; but it does not seem possible that a science of such importance can be too difficult for common people to understand. May it not be that the trouble is with the textbooks rather than the subject? The old treatises are full of statistics, discussions, theories, opinions, hypotheses, and arguments; but these are worse than useless in a textbook of elementary principles. 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.