POLITICAL ECONOMY,
Reading edition
BY
HORACE GREELEY.
The Essays on Protection to Home Industry, published in "The Tribune" during the year 1869, have been republished in a handsome volume of 384 pages.
CONTENTS.
I. Labor—Production.
II. Commerce—Exchanges.
III. Capital—Skill—Invention—Intellectual Property.
IV. Money—The Balance of Trade.
V. Paper Money—Interest—Usury.
VI. Slavery—Hired Labor—Proportion—Co-operation.
VII. Monopoly—The Law of Prices—Effect of Duties on Cost.
VIII. Agriculture as affected by Protection—Views of the Fathers.
IX. The State—Its Legitimate Sphere—Powers and Duties—Free Trade Axioms considered
X. Protection for Agriculture.
XI. Manufacturers and their Needs.
XII. The Laboring Class—Its Rights, Interests, Duties, and Needs.
XIII. The Interest of Consumers—Iron.
XIV. Protection Illustrated—Sugar.
XV. The Harmony of Interests—The Sugar Industry of France invigorating other Industries—Beet Sugar on its Triumphal March.
XVI. American Ship-Building, Shipping, and Foreign Commerce.
XVII. Credit—Its Uses and Abuses—Foreign Indebtedness—Our National Debt.
XVIII. What has been elucidating what shall be.
XIX. Taxation, Direct and Indirect.
XX. Co-operation.
XXI. Wool and Woolens.
XXII. Immigration.
XXIII. Specific—Ad Valorem—Minimum.
XXIV. Conclusions.
Analytical Appendix.
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