Political Economy Authorized Translation From The Third Edition Of The Cours Deconomie Politique

Author : Charles Gide
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440057090
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Political Economy written by Charles Gide and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Principles of Political Economy The fact that Professor Gide's "Principes d'Économie Politique" has gone through eight editions in the original French and been translated into the Russian, Swedish, Polish, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, and Bohemian languages, furnishes presumptive evidence of its usefulness. The first English translation, published in 1889, has been very widely used in England and America as a college text-book, despite numerous features of this translation which placed it at a disadvantage when compared with other text-books designed to supply practically the same need. These features have been pointed out from time to time by benevolent critics; but the continued extensive use of the book with classes in political economy led the publishers to conclude that a new edition, without the objectionable features, and adapted more closely to the needs of American college classes in economics, would find an even wider acceptance than the first English translation. The successive French editions of the work have undergone numerous and important changes, - changes not so much in the general scope and spirit of the book as in the manner of presenting certain sections of the subject. The fundamental purpose has remained precisely the same: to give the reader a plain statement of the accepted principles of economics, a summary of the unsettled problems of the science, and a clear, brief, and impartial outline of the various solutions that have been proposed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.