OF

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

PART THE FIRST:

OF

THE LAWS OF THE

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

BY H. C. CAREY,

AUTHOR OF AN ESSAY ON THE RATE OF WAGES.

"All discord harmony not understood."-POPE.

"God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions."-

ECCLESIASTES,

PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD.-CHESTNUT STREET.

1837.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1837, by

CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

ERRATA.

Page 21. The extract from Col. Torrens, in the note to this page, should have

been as follows: "Wealth, considered as the object of economical science, consists of those material articles which are useful or desirable to man, and which it requires some portion of voluntary exertion to procure or preserve.”—p. 1.

41, line 2, for "they were," read “it was.”

66

"113, line 7 from foot, for "houses," read "horses."

"172, 66

2, for "doubled," read "almost doubled."

"200, note, line 7 from foot, for "the demand," read "increase of the de

mand."

"230, line 21, for "reduction," read “fall.”

"235,"22, for "those," read "that."