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This set illustrates the development of political economy in America over the course of the nineteenth century. Beginning with the work of Mathew Carey, an emphasis emerges on the link between economic policy on the one hand, and individual and national prosperity and freedom on the other. These six important volumes contain discussions of many of the issues that were to occupy American economists through the century--protectionism and free trade, agricultural policy, metallism and monetary policy, banking and finance, and taxation.