Book excerpt: Excerpt from Económica del Comercio Ántes de ocuparnos en aquellas particularidades de la ciencia económica que conciernen al comerciante i al hom bre de negocios mas especialmente que al profesional o al agricultor, conviene indicar con brevedad los fundamen tos en que reposa nuestro estudio. Es necesario formamos una idea clara de lo que vamos a discutir i de lo que cons tituye en jeneral la ciencia de la economía política. Para esto, se nos permitirá evitar los términos técnicos i con siderar simplemente los hechos ordinarios de la vida hu mana. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.