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This volume presents David Hume’s 1752 work, *Political Discourses*, which outlines his foundational principles of political economy. The text includes an autobiographical sketch by the author and an account of his death written by Adam Smith.

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OF THE BALANCE OF TRADE.

In short, a government has great reason to preserve with care its people and its manufactures. Its money it may safely trust to the course of human affairs, without fear or jealousy; or if it ever give attention to this latter circumstance, it ought only to be so far as it affects the former.

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