03086cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000350011324500560014826400510020430000470025533600260030233700260032833800360035450000310039050500580042150801880047952017700066753400700243765300310250765300300253865300310256885600750259985600430267499900190271776102UtSlPG20260610134748.0mcr n260607r20251834utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aMartineau, Harriet,d1802-187610aIllustrations of political economy, Volume 9 (of 9) 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-05-160 aThe Farrers of Budge-row -- The moral of many fables.  aEmmanuel Ackerman, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Illustrations of political economy, Volume 9 (of 9)" by Harriet Martineau is a collection of didactic tales and essays on economics written in the early 19th century. It dramatizes how taxation, public debt, war finance, trade restrictions, and personal morality shape everyday lives, chiefly through the story of a London grocer’s family in Budge Row paired with essayistic dialogues that unpack the principles at stake. Readers can expect a blend of social fiction and plain-spoken economic argument aimed at showing how policy choices ripple through households and markets.  The opening of Illustrations of political economy, Volume 9 (of 9) follows the Farrers of Budge Row as Jane prepares for the return of her university-educated brother Henry, while their father exults over gains from a tontine and frets about war, taxes, and the national debt. Family tensions mount as the exciseman brother‑in‑law Peek boasts of his powers, Henry recoils from shopkeeping and consumption taxes’ effects on the poor, and Mr. Farrer tries to force him into the grocery. Henry leaves to earn by his pen; Mr. Farrer declines and dies on New Year’s Eve, prompting Jane’s struggle with avarice and Morgan the servant’s plain, steadying counsel. The section then shifts to Henry’s modest household with his French émigré wife Marie and her father, where their collaborative writing turns into clear debates on taxation (consumption versus income/property), smuggling, and the economic harms seen in Holland, France, Spain, and England, culminating in an argument that an equitable property tax and paying down the national debt would best relieve the industrious—setting the intellectual stakes for the tale. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Charles Fox, Paternoster-Row, 1834  aSocial problems -- Fiction  aDidactic fiction, English  aPolitical fiction, English4 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t85h82v94&seq=540uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76102  c116827d116827