THE SCIENCE OF WEALTH: A MANUAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. EMBRACING THE LAWS OF TRADE, CURRENCY, BY AMASA WALKER, LECTURER ON PUBLIC ECONOMY IN AMHERST COLLEGE. LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 330,1 W177 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by AMASA WALKER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. SECOND EDITION. CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON. PREFACE. IN the preparation of the following work, it has been my hope, while furnishing a Manual of Political Economy, which should present clearly and intelligibly the leading principles of the science, to afford a full and thorough analysis and description of the different currencies used in the commerce of the world, especially to exhibit the nature and effects of the mixed-currency system of the United States. Regarding the instruments of exchange as essential, not only to the largest production, but to an equitable distribution and advantageous consumption, of wealth, I have long felt that a work was needed which should give more prominence to the subject of money and currency than it has heretofore received. I have searched in vain for any work on Political Economy, domestic or foreign, which even attempted such a complete view of the monetary question, in all its bearings, as it appears to me to demand. Especially does such a work seem to be called for at the present time, when there are more conflicting views and wider differences |