Excerpt from The Science of Wealth: A Manual of Political Economy "The propositions brought forward are candidly stated, and great care is taken to make each demonstration so simple as to bring it within the grasp of those professing ordinary intelligence. We'Should think that the work would be found very useful to students and others seeking information on this important theme. Prof. Walker has held many public positions in Massachusetts and represented the State in Congress, is a man of wide experience in business, high personal character, and general cultivation." - Phila. Age. "It is a very complete treatise on the subject with which it deals." - Pittsburgh Leader. "We have never met with a book so well adage the use of young men who desire a thorough fundamental knowledge of the subject as the work at the head of this article... We bespeak for it a welcome from all men who desire to see clearly the distinction between truth and fallacy, and to build up intelligent popular convictions on the topics of which it treats." - American Journal of Education. "In it present form the book furnishes a clear and interesting statement of all the important facts and theories of the science. Mr. Walker is a skillful manipulator of figures, and altogether among the best statisticians of the times. We commend the work as being, by reason of its clearness of arrangement and style, one of the best books in Political Economy with which we are acquainted," - Boston Journal. "Mr. Walker is not unknown to the public as an author in this department of literature. The present volume presents his carefully prepared opinions upon Trade, Currency, and Finance, and will be a valuable manual of Political Economy for schools and for general reading." - Maine Journal of Education. "This work promises to be a standard, as was that first published in 1866. It is an intelligent presentation of the laws by which the Trade, Currency, and Finance of the country are governed, and of the principles which underlie commerce between nations. The study of Political Economy is one of interest to all thinking men; but works on the subject are sealed books to the masses, whereas with a work like this in hand, rough places become plain and difficulties seem to vanish." - Pennsylvania School Journal. "Dr. Amasa Walker is one of the most voluminous writers on the subject of Political Economy. The result of his long studies may be considered to be comprehended in the volume before us... There is much to commend in the chapters on Trades, Strikes, Currency, Taxation, etc." - Phila. Evening Bulletin. "I have examined it, like it well, and hope it may be generally introduced." - A. S. Welsh, President of Iowa State Agricultural College. 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.