NOTICE.

The following Volume consists of Treatises and Essays on some of the most important subjects connected with the Theory, Development, and History of Economical Policy; with Biographical Sketches of the great Masters of Economical Science. Some of these Articles have already appeared in the “Encyclopædia Britannica” and other works, while others are now published for the first time. The former have, however, been carefully revised, and in part rewritten. And the collection may not, perhaps, be thought unworthy of some portion of the public patronage.

London,

December 1852

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