Title: An inquiry into the permanent causes of the decline and fall of powerful and wealthy nations, illustrated by four engraved charts. |c By William Playfair, author of Notes and continuation of an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, by Adam Smith, LL. D. and inventor of linear arithmetic, &c. Designed to shew how the prosperity of the British Empire may be prolonged
Subjects: History -- Philosophy, Economics, Great Britain -- Economic conditions