0 POLITICAL ECONOMY: ITS OBJECTS, USES, AND PRINCIPLES: CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THE CON- WITH A SUMMARY, FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. BY A. POTTER, D.D., PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN UNION COLLEGE. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 329 & 331 PEARL STREET, FRANKLIN SQUARE. こ GIFT OF MRS. CHARLES S. PEIRCE JUNE 28, 1915 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern Distric of New York. 9480 ADVERTISEMENT. THIS Volume consists of four parts. The first part, entitled Preliminary Chapter, discusses the Object, Uses, and History of Political Economy. The second part is an exposition of the funda mental principles of the science, in connexion with various questions of practical interest. The third part, or Supplementary Chapter, is a special application of these principles to the condition of labouring men in the United States. The fourth part is a brief Summary of the same principles for convenient reference, and especially for the use of students in seminaries of learning. The second part is substantially a reprint of the first ten chapters of Scrope's Political Economy, a work published in England in 1833 by G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., a member of the House of Commons, and well known in his own country as an able writer on Currency, Taxation, &c. In adopting that portion of the work which contains the elements of the science, it was found necessary to abridge a few chapters, to enlarge others, and to modify various statements of the author, in order |