To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the hu….

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but nei….

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine thei….

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognise….

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be….

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfe….

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for t….

The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been ….

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To….

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; an….