AN INQUIRY INTO
THE
NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
by Adam
Smith
(First
published in 1776)
A PENN
STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS
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Text by chapters:
Contents (1)
Introduction and plan of the
work (8)
BOOK
I: Of
the causes of
improvement in the productive powers of labour,
------------------------
and of the order according to which its produce is naturally
------------------------
distributed among the different ranks of the
people (10)
CHAPTER I: Of the
division of labour (10)
CHAPTER II: Of the principle which gives occasion to
the
division of labour (18)
CHAPTER III: That the division of labour is limited by the
extent of the market (21)
CHAPTER IV: Of the origen and use of money (25)
CHAPTER V: Of the real and nominal price of
commodities, or of
their price in
------------------------
labour, and their price in money (31)
CHAPTER VI: Of the component part of the price of
commodities (45)
CHAPTER VII: Of the natural and market price of
commodities (51)
CHAPTER VIII: Of the wages of labour (58)
CHAPTER IX: Of the profits of
stock (77)
CHAPTER X: Of wages and profit in the different
employments of
labour and stock (86)
---------------PART
I
- Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments
themselves.
---------------PART II -
Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe.
CHAPTER XI: Of the rent of
land (124)
BOOK II: Of the nature,
accumulation, and employment of
stock (222)
Introduction (222)
CHAPTER I: Of the division of stock (224)
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 (230)
CHAPTER III: Of the accumulation of capital, or of productive
and unproductive labour (270)
CHAPTER IV: Of stock and
interest (286)
CHAPTER V: Of the different employment of
capitals (293)
BOOK III:
Of the different
progress of opulence in different nations (307)
CHAPTER I: Of the natural
progress of
opulence (307)
CHAPTER II: Of the discouragement of agriculture in the ancient
state of Europe,
---------------------after the
fall of the Roman Empire (311)
CHAPTER III: Of the rise and progress of cities and towns, after
the fall of the
---------------------Roman
Empire (321)
CHAPTER IV: How the commerce of towns contributed to the
improvement of the country (330)
BOOK IV: Of systems of
political economy (341)
CHAPTER I: Of the
principle of the commercial or mercantile
system (342)
CHAPTER II: Of restraints upon importation from
foreign
countries of such goods as can be produced at
home (361)
CHAPTER III: Of the extraordinary restraint upon the
importation
of goods of
-----------------------almost
all kinds, from those countries with which the balance is
-----------------------supposed
to be disadvantageous (378)
---------------Part I - Of
the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even
upon the Principles of
-------------------------
the Commercial System (378)
---------------Part II
- Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary
Restraints, upon other
---------------------------
Principles ( 391)
CHAPTER IV: Of
drawbacks (400)
CHAPTER V: Of
bounties (405)
CHAPTER VI: Of treaties of
commerce (437)
CHAPTER VII: Of
colonies (447)
CHAPTER VIII: Conclusion of the mercantile
system (522)
CHAPTER IX: Of the agricultural systems, or of those
systems of
political
------------------------economy
which represent the produce of land, as either the sole
------------------------or the
principal source of revenue and wealth of every country
----------------------- (539)
APPENDIX to BOOK IV (562)
BOOK V:
Of the
revenues of the sovereign or commonwealth
(564)
CHAPTER I: Of the expenses of the sovereign
or
commonwealth (564)
---------------PART
I - Of the Expense of
Defence (564)
---------------PART
II - Of the Expense of Justice (579)
---------------PART
III - Of the Expense of public Works and public
Institutions (590)
---------------PART
IV - Of the Expense of supporting the Dignity of the
Sovereign (666)
Conclusion
(667)
CHAPTER II: Of the sources of the general or public
revenue of the society (668)
---------------PART I - Of the Funds, or
Sources, of Revenue, which may
peculiarly belong to
----------------------------- the
Sovereign or Commonwealth (668)
---------------PART II
- Of Taxes (676)
CHAPTER III: Of public debts (749)
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