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Chapter 1: ILLUSTRATIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.
By Harriet Martineau
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A set of instructive narratives considers economic principles through village and rural scenes. One tale depicts a frontier community coping with sudden loss of property and organizing shared labor and resources to survive; others dramatize how individual habits, cooperation, and prudence shape prosperity and decline on contrasting estates and farms. Across the pieces the author examines the sources of wealth, the value of work, the effects of thrift and waste, and social responsibilities, using concrete situations and characters to render abstract political economy into everyday moral and practical lessons.

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Title: Illustrations of political economy, Volume 1 (of 9)

Author: Harriet Martineau

Release date: May 7, 2023 [eBook #70716]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Charles Fox, Paternoster-Row, 1834

Credits: Emmanuel Ackerman, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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ILLUSTRATIONS
OF
POLITICAL ECONOMY.

BY
HARRIET MARTINEAU.
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LIFE IN THE WILDS.
THE HILL AND THE VALLEY.
BROOKE AND BROOKE FARM.
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IN NINE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
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LONDON:
CHARLES FOX, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
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MDCCCXXXIV.
LONDON.
Printed by William Clowes,
Duke-street, Lambeth.