The Science Of Wealth: A Manual Of Political Economy; Embracing The Laws Of Trade, Currency, And Finance (1866) - Hardcover

Walker, Amasa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0548968047 ISBN 13: 9780548968048

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

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The propositions brought forward are candidly stated, and great care is taken to make each demonstration so simple as to bring it within the grasp of those professing ordinary intelligence. We should think that the work would be found very useful to students and others seeking information on this important theme. Prof. Walker has held many public positions in Massachusetts and represented the State in Congress, is a man of wide experience in business, high personal character, and general cultivation. Phila. A ge. It is a very complete treatise on the subject with which it deals. Pittsburgh Leader. We have never met with a book so well adapted to the use of young men who desire a thorough fundamental knowledge of the subject as the work at the head of this article. .. .W ebespeak for it a welcome from all men who desire to see clearly the distinction between truth and fallacy, and to build up intelligent popular convictions on the topics of which it treats. American Journal of Education. In it present form the book furnishes a clear and interesting statement of all the important facts and theories of the science. Mr. Walker is a skillful manipulator of figures, and altogether among the best statisticians of the times. We commend the work as being, by reason of its clearness of arrangement and style, one of the best books in Political Economy with which we are acquainted. Boston Journal. Mr. Walker is not unknown to the public as an author in this department of literature. The present volume presents his carefully prepared opinions upon Trade, Currency, and Finance, and will be a valuable manual of Political Economy for schools and for general reading. Maine Journal of Education. This work promises to be a standard, as was that first published in 1866. It is an intelligent presentation of the laws by which the Trade, Currency, and Finance of the country are go
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0548968047
• ISBN 13: 9780548968048
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 536