Excerpt from Dictionary of Political Economy, Vol. 1 The complete preface to a book naturally cannot be written till the work itself is finished but with the first volume some remarks by way of introduction will be useful, to explain the object for which this work has been written, and the method on which it is arranged. The primary object of the Dictionary of Political Economy is to provide the student with such assistance as may enable him to understand the position of economic thought at the present time, and to pursue such branches of inquiry as may be necessary for that end. The table of the contents of the work shows. How large is the range of investigation which the student must follow at the present time. 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.