Excerpt from Public Economy: For the United States The Prevalence of Free Trade makes a Problem - The Rules by which it is to be solved. -british Writers and Literature on this Subject. - The free-trade Epoch - British Legislation for Protection, and the Effect of this Policy for a Century previous to Adam Smith - Treatment Ofthe American Colonies under the crown.-its Inconsistency with Free Trade - Free Trade in Great Britain a State Policy, not a General Principle. Adam Smith employed by the British Government to write his Book - His Inconsistency and Self Contradiction - Examples - The chief Aim of Adam Smith, was to reconcile the American Colonies to Injustice - Free Trade a British Instinct and Selfish - m'cul loch's Betrayal of British Policy - The Authority of British Writers on Free Trade. Their Authority in our Schools, and in forming the Minds of our Statesmen. - Obsequious ness and Servility of American free-trade Economists - Free Trade a one-legged Science - Born in the Closet - British Free Trade Writers Employees of the British Government - History of Free Trade as a Party Question in the United States - Its Prevalence here owing to Social Position and Obsequiousness. - Instincts of the Ameri can People in Favor of Protection - Free Trade can not be the permanent Policy of the United States. 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.