An Introductory Lecture On Political Economy Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Introductory Lectures on Political Economy: Being Part of a Course, Delivered in Easter Term, MDCCCXXXI The following pages are presented'to the public, in compliance with a requisition of the Statute relative to the Professorship of political-economy, that one Lecture at least shall be published every year. Conceiving that one object of that pro vision must be, that the public may have some knowledge of what sort of Lectures on the subject are annually delivered at Oxford, 1 have not thought myself at liberty to make any material alterations in the Lectures as they'were delivered. Otherwise, I might, perhaps, have endea voured to change the method and the style; adopted with a View to oral de livery, for such as might be more suited to the closet. Perhaps, indeed, I might, but for that requisition, have hesitated as to the publication of such a Work at all. For the title of it is not unlikely to deter one class of readers, and to disappoint another. Those who have never applied themselves to the study, may perhaps be led to anticipate, from the title of Political Economy, something dry, abstruse, and uninteresting; and those again who are, and have long been, conversant with it may perhaps expect such' discussions of various important questions, as I have thought it best not to enter on, in an in troductory Course. It has been my first object, to combat the prevailing prejudices against the study. 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.