The Past, the Present, and the Future

by Henry C. Carey

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First edition

Phila., PA : Carey & Hart, 1848. First edition. 8vo. 474 pp. Carey 1793-1879 succeeded his father, Mathew Carey, in the family publishing business, but earned wider recognition as an economist; in this work he announced himself the foe of the free-trade system ... giving definitive statement to his opposition to the Ricardian theory of rent, maintaining that the order of occupation has been from poorer to better soils, and that the progress of

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