Essays Designed to Elucidate the Science of Political Economy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1870 work, by one of the great journalists of the time, aims to teach economics to the student and general reader. Topics include labor, commerce, capital, company, money, slavery, monopoly, agriculture, the state, manufacturing, trade, consumers, iron, sugar, shipbuilding, credit, taxation, wool, immigration, foreign commerce, and more.