
PRINCIPLES - OF - POLITICAL ECONOMY - BY - WILLIAM ROSCHER, - PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, PRIVY COUNSELLOR TO HIS MAJESTY, THE KING OF SAXONY. - FROM THE THIRTEENTH (1877) GERMAN EDITION. - WITH ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS, FURNISHED BY THE AUTHOR, FOR THIS FIRST ENGLISH AND AMERICAN EDITION, ON - PAPER MONEY, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, AND THE PROTECTIVE SYSTEM; - AND A PRELIMINARY - ESSAY ON THE HISTORICAL METHOD IN POLITICAL ECONOMY
By L. WOLOWSKI, - THE WHOLE TRANSLATED BY - JOHN J. LALOR, A. M.
VOL. II.
CHAPTER II. - THE RENT OF LAND.
CHAPTER III. - WAGES.
CHAPTER IV. - INTEREST ON CAPITAL.
CHAPTER V. - THE UNDERTAKER'S PROFIT. (UNTERNEHMERLOHN.)
CHAPTER VI. - CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE THREE BRANCHES OF INCOME.
CHAPTER VII. - DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL INCOME.
BOOK IV. - CONSUMPTION OF GOODS.
Translation of System der volkswirthschaft.
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en
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Release date
2012-01-23
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1817–1894
A leading figure in the German historical school of economics, this nineteenth-century scholar argued that economic life can only be understood through history, institutions, and real social conditions. His work helped push political economy away from abstract formulas and toward the study of how societies actually develop.
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