Because there's part of a paragraph in that speech that's, I hesitate to use the word plagiarize, but frankly, he lifts a good part of it from Mill's, the 1848 American edition of John Stuart Mill's Political Economy.
The fact is, I begin to think that you have so muddled your head with mathematics, and with grubbing into those idiotic old books about political economy (he he! ), that you scarcely know how to behave.
Such a political economy, though it no doubt retards more or less, is not always capable of stopping altogether, the natural progress of a nation towards wealth and prosperity, and still less of making it go backwards.
In Stanley Jevons's theory of political economy, the word gratuitous is used exactly once when the author mentions the gratuitous fruits of nature, though he takes care to clarify that these fruits are almost gratuitous.
Acting on this curious but appealing political economy, Congress issued in June, 1776, two million dollars in bills of credit to be redeemed by the states on the basis of their respective populations.
She wrote a best-selling series called Illustrations on the Political Economy, which used fables and a literary style of writing to bring the economic principles of Adam Smith to the general public.
Adams was glad to dwell on the virtues of the Church and the triumphs of its art: the Professor of Political Economy had to treat them as waste of force.
The germs of Parisian political economy, latent in his heart, would assuredly burst forth, sooner or later, whenever the careless spectator became an actor in the drama of real life.
This elevating thought lifted her above her annoyance at being twitted with her ignorance of political economy, that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights.
How does this affect people who, say, didn't graduate from Oxford with a 2.1 in PPE, and now intern at the Spectator magazine, helping Michael Gove locate his Charlie?