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Description: Introduction to the scope and working of the most important laws of political economy. Explains a variety of topics, including the laws of supply and demand, prices, work and wages, the relation of capital and labor, co-operative societies, trades unions, and strikes, with lots of interesting examples that can be easily grasped by the youthful readers for whom it is intended.

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1. The Laws We Live Under

Part I - The Law of the Land

2. The Need for Law
3. How Laws are Made, and Why we should Obey Them
4. How Good Citizens Should Honor the Law

Part II - The Laws of Nature and Reason

5. The Law of Supply and Demand
6. Changes in Supply and Demand
7. Prices

8. Work and Wages

9. The Value of Wages

Part III - How to Live Under the Law

10. Capital
11. Co-operation between Labor and Capital
12. Co-operative Socities
13. The Advantages of Co-operation
14. Trades Unions
15. Strikes
16. The Power of Public Opinion

Part IV - Work and Workers

17. The Evil Fruit of Law-Bearing
18. Work and Workers

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by Paul Reinsch

Our Island Story

by H. E. Marshall

Medieval and Modern Times, Part II

by James Harvey Robinson

A History of Everyday Things in England, Volume II

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