OF

POLITICAL ECONOMY

BY

Wilhelm Georg Friedrich

WILLIAM ROSCHER,

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PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG, CORRESPONDING
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, PRIVY COUNSELLOR TO HIS

MAJESTY, THE KING OF SAXONY.

FROM THE THIRTEENTH (1877) GERMAN EDITION.

WITH ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS FURNISHED BY THE AUTHOR, FOR THIS FIRST
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN EDITION, ON

PAPER MONEY, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, AND THE
PROTECTIVE SYSTEM;

AND A PRELIMINARY

ESSAY ON THE HISTORICAL METHOD IN POLITICAL ECONOMY.
(From the French)

By L. WOLOWSKI,

THE WHOLE TRANSLATED BY

JOHN J. LALOR, A. M.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

HENRY HOLT & CO.

1878.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,

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