Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Political Economy, Universities, Government, Politics, Commerce, Charlatanry, Boundary Formation

    Observing how little political economy is practised and understood by governments, wonders where it exists, 'excepting in our Universities'. In light of the nation's 'increasing expenditure [...] this scientific impostor should in honesty throw off its libellous cognomen' and be called 'the Science of Political Extravagance'.