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EVENING CLASSES 301 28 POLITICAL ECONOMY Lay and Hour of Attendance-Friday from to The Tooke Professor will deliver Course of sixteen or seventeen Lectures The following is brief account of the subjects which will be treated in these Lectures The Origin and Development of Political Economy its Relations to History and its use in the Interpretation of History and Social Progress The Economy of Ancient Civilization and Mediaeval Society-The Conditions under which Wealth is Produced and Distributed-The Exchange of Products-The Advantage of International Trade-The Functions of Money and the Laws which regulate its Dis- tribution-The place of Capital in relation to Labour and Demand-The causes which determine Rates of Wages and the expedients adopted to raise or depress Wages-The General Theory of Prices-The Law of the Increase of Popu- lation and Rent-The Relations subsisting between Agricul culture and Manufactures-Colonies and Emigration-The Principles of Taxation-The Active and Permissive Functions of Government-The Progress and Decline of Material Pros- perity-Expedients by which the Distribution of Wealth is artificially checked-Projects intended to assist its artificial distribution-Protection-Communism Gentlemen proposing to join this Class are recommended to read the following books Hallam's Middle Ages Chap IX Mr Mill's Political Economy Book Thorold Rogers' Manual of Political Economy 29 PUBLIC READING AND SPEAKING Bays and Hours of Attendance Tuesday and Friday from to Introductory Remarks-On Public Reading and Speaking -What is Elocution -Definition of the term-Estimation in which the art was held by the Ancients-Its subsequent com- parative decline and neglect-The great value of Elocution