An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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- INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK.Sample
- CHAPTER I. OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR.
- CHAPTER II. OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR.
- CHAPTER III. THAT THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IS LIMITED BY THE EXTENT OF THE MARKET.
- CHAPTER IV. OF THE ORIGIN AND USE OF MONEY.
- CHAPTER V. OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL PRICE OF COMMODITIES, OR OF THEIR PRICE IN LABOUR, AND THEIR PRICE IN MONEY.
- CHAPTER VI. OF THE COMPONENT PART OF THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES.
- CHAPTER VII. OF THE NATURAL AND MARKET PRICE OF COMMODITIES.
- CHAPTER VIII. OF THE WAGES OF LABOUR.
- CHAPTER IX. OF THE PROFITS OF STOCK.
- CHAPTER X.
- PART I. Inequalities arising from the nature of the employmentsthemselves.
- PART II.—Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe.
- CHAPTER XI.
- PART I.—Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent.
- PART II.—Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and sometimes
- PART III.—Of the variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of that sort of Produce which always affords Rent, and of that which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent.
- Conclusion of the Chapter.
- BOOK II. OF THE NATURE, ACCUMULATION, AND EMPLOYMENT OF STOCK.
- CHAPTER I. OF THE DIVISION OF STOCK.
- CHAPTER II. OF MONEY, CONSIDERED AS A PARTICULAR BRANCH OF THE GENERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
- CHAPTER III. OF THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL, OR OF PRODUCTIVE AND UNPRODUCTIVE LABOUR.
- CHAPTER IV. OF STOCK LENT AT INTEREST.
- CHAPTER V. OF THE DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS OF CAPITALS.
- BOOK III. OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRESS OF OPULENCE IN DIFFERENT NATIONS
- CHAPTER II. OF THE DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
- CHAPTER III. OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
- CHAPTER IV. HOW THE COMMERCE OF TOWNS CONTRIBUTED TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE COUNTRY.
- BOOK IV. OF SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.
- CHAPTER I. OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE COMMERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM.
- CHAPTER II. OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME.
- Part I—Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the
- PART II.—Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints,
- CHAPTER IV. OF DRAWBACKS.
- CHAPTER V. OF BOUNTIES.
- CHAPTER VI. OF TREATIES OF COMMERCE.
- PART I. Of the Motives for Establishing New Colonies.
- PART II. Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies.
- Preface
- PART III. Of the Advantages which Europe has derived From the Discovery of
- CHAPTER VIII. CONCLUSION OF THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM.
- CHAPTER IX.
- APPENDIX TO BOOK IV
- PART I. Of the Expense of Defence.
- PART II. Of the Expense of Justice
- PART III. Of the Expense of public Works and public Institutions.
- Preface
- PART IV. Of the Expense of supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign.
- CHAPTER II.
- PART I. Of the Funds, or Sources, of Revenue, which may peculiarly belong
- PART II. Of Taxes.
- Chapter
- CHAPTER III. OF PUBLIC DEBTS.