Excerpt from Catechism of Political Economy: Or Familiar Conversations on the Manner in Which Wealth Is Produced, Distributed, and Consumed in Society It has been asked Why I did not publish this Catechism, as being more elementary, be fore my Traite d'economie Politique. The reason is evident. If I had not previously proved in a work of detail, by numerous ex amples and strict reasoning, that Political Eco momy, in the present state of the science, is only the exposition of What is passing every day; and that all the facts are so intimately connected together, that it has become easy to refer to their causes, and to deduce from them satisfactory results, every thing must have been taken upon my credit; and I am far from pretending to so much deference. 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.