Excerpt from Contemporary Social Problems: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the University of PaduaSome years ago a number of students of the various faculties of the University of Padua asked me to deliver a weekly lecture devoted to the more general notions of political economy - and of a popular character.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.