Excerpt from View of the Progress of Political Economy in Europe Since the Sixteenth Century Mr. Malthus. The Eighth Lecture is occupied with M. Say's theory of commercial outlets and various questions incidental to liberty of commerce. The currency question may be said to form the subject of the Ninth and concluding Lecture, extending over a period of about sixty years, from the first issue of assignats in France to the Bank Charter Act of 1844. 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.