ON

POLITICAL ECONOMY:

IN WHICH ARE ILLUSTRATED

THE PRINCIPAL CAUSES

OF THE

PRESENT NATIONAL DISTRESS;

WITH

APPROPRIATE REMEDIES.

LONDON:-PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1830.

700.

W. WILSON, PRINTER, 57, SKINNER-STREET, LONDON

45

II. On Security to Property..

III. On Improvements in the Productive Powers of Labour

65

IV. On Currency in general, and particularly on Coin.. 84

V. On Paper Currency

113

VI. On the Importation and Exportation of Gold and Silver 160

VII. On Variations in the Value of Gold and Silver...... 206

VIII. On the Origin and Increase of Capital.....

245

IX. On the Employment of Capital generally, its Division

and Value

263

X. On the Different Employments of Capital..

280

XI. On the Employment of Capital in Agriculture, Mines,

and Fisheries

....

296

XII. On the Employment of Capital in Manufactures.... 340

ESSAYS

ON

POLITICAL ECONOMY,

&c. &c.

PRELIMINARY.

NATIONAL Wealth may be defined as consisting of those material objects which are necessary, useful, or agreeable to mankind, and at the same time possess value in exchange. These objects are the produce of labour. The labour of every nation is the fund which supplies it with all the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries which it consumes, and these consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.

According, therefore, as the national labour is more or less productive, and according also as its produce is more or less suitable in kind, and in its proper proportions to supply, or to purchase what will supply the wants and desires of those for whose use

B