An Introduction to Political Economy

The Growth and characteristics of industrial society and the nature of political economy Preliminary remarks on political economy and sociology Isolated and social economic life. Certain special and elementary characteristics of the economic life of a people The two great factors of national economy The Economy of a nation an historical product The stages in the economic development of civilization Economic stages viewed from the stand-point of production and from the stand-point of transfers of goods A few main causes for the existence of present economic problems Some general features of the economy of the modern nation Political economy defined Other definitions of political economy Main Parts of Political economy Economic methods Economic law A Few remarks on the utility of political economy with some general considerations on the relation of political science to other sciences Motives of economic activity The factors of production Organization of the productive factors Money Credit and the instruments of credit-Banks and clearing houses The Regulation of international commerce Wages and the wages system Labor organizations Profit-sharing and co-operationsocialism Monopolies A few additional remarks on social problems and remedies for socila evils Taxation The evolution of economic science Economic ideas in the ancient world and the middle ages Economic ideas in modern times A few suggestions for study and courses of reading