POPULAR POLITICAL ECONOMY. FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. BY THOMAS HODGSKIN, FORMERLY HONORARY SECRETARY TO THE INSTITUTION. "The laws which determine the prosperity of nations are not the work of LONDON: PRINTED FOR CHARLES TAIT, 63, FLEET STREET; EDINBURGH. 1827. EN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 1872466 ASTOR, LENOX AND 1942 LONDON PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET STREET. ΤΟ GEORGE BIRKBECK, ESQ. M. D., F. C. S., M.A.S. President of the London Mechanics Institution, of the Meteorological and Chemical Societies, and of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bristol, &c. &c. MY DEAR SIR, IN requesting you to accept the dedication of this little work I am actuated by no mean ambition. I wish to bear in this public manner my humble but sincere testimony to the great importance of your services in promoting the advancement of sound knowledge, and to the generous zeal which leads you to devote much of your time, and I am afraid, to sacrifice your health, to the accomplishment of this great object; and I wish at the same time, thus publicly to express the pride I feel at being numbered among your acquaintance and fellow-labourers in this field of true honour. From the beginning of the London Me- |