WEALTH OF NATIONS
Introduction and Plan of the Work
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
CHAP. I. - Of the Division of Labour
CHAP. II. - Of the Principle which gives occasion to the Division of Labour
CHAP. III. - That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market
CHAP. IV.- -Of the Origin and Use of Money
CHAP. V.- -Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or their Price in Labour, and their Price in Money
CHAP. VI. - Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities
CHAP. VII. - Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities
CHAP. VIII. - Of the Wages of Labour
CHAP. IX. - Of the Profits of Stock
CHAP. X. - Of Wages and Profit in the different Employments of Labour and Stock
PART FIRST. - Inequalities arising from the Nature of the Employments themselves
PART SECOND. - Inequalities by the Policy of Europe
CHAP. XI. - Of the Rent of Land
PART FIRST. - Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent
PART SECOND. - Of the Produce of Land which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent
PART THIRD. - 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
Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver during the Course of the Four last Centuries –
First Period
Second Period
Third Period
Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of Gold and Silver
Grounds of the Suspicion that the Value of Silver still continues to decrease
Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon three different Sorts of rude Produce
First Sort
Second Sort
Third Sort
Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver
Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price of Manufactures
Conclusion of the Chapter
BOOK II. - Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock
Introduction
CHAP. I. - Of the Division of Stock
CHAP. II. - Of Money considered as a particular Branch of the general Stock of the Society, or of the Expense of maintaining the National Capital
CHAP. III. - Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour
CHAP. IV. - Of Stock Lent at Interest
CHAP. V. - Of the Different Employment of Capitals
BOOK III. - Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations
CHAP. I. - Of the Natural Progress of Opulence
CHAP. II. - Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAP. III. - Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns after the Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAP. IV. - How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country
BOOK IV. - Of Systems of political Oeconomy
Introduction
CHAP. I. - Of the Principle of the Commercial, or Mercantile System
CHAP. II. - Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of such Goods as can be produced at Home
CHAP. III. - Of the extraordinary Restraints upon the Importation of Goods of almost all kinds from those Countries with which the Balance is supposed to be disadvantageous
PART FIRST. - Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints even upon the Principles of the Commercial System
Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly concerning that of Amsterdam
PART SECOND. - Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints upon other Principles
CHAP. IV. - Of Drawbacks
CHAP. V. - Of Bounties
Digression concerning the Corn Trade and Corn Laws
CHAP. VI. - Of Treaties of Commerce
CHAP. VII. - Of Colonies
PART FIRST. - Of the Motives for establishing new Colonies
PART SECOND. - Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies
PART THIRD. - Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of America, and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope
CHAP. VIII. - Conclusion of the Mercantile System
CHAP. 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 the Revenue and Wealth every Country
BOOK V. - Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
CHAP. I. - Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
PART FIRST. - Of the Expense of Defence
PART SECOND. - Of the Expense of Justice
PART THIRD. - Of the Expense of Public Works and Public Institutions
ARTICLE I. - Of the Public Works and Institutions for facilitating the Commerce of the Society
1st – For facilitating the general Commerce of the Society
2dly – For facilitating particular Branches of Commerce
ARTICLE II. - Of the Expense of the Institutions for the Education of Youth
ARTICLE III. - Of the Expense of the Institutions for the Instruction of People of all Ages
PART FOURTH. - Of the Expense of Supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign
Conclusion of the Chapter
CHAP. II. - Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society
PART FIRST. - Of the Funds or Sources of Revenue which may peculiarly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth
PART SECOND. - Of Taxes
ARTICLE I. - Taxes upon Rent; Taxes upon the Rent of Land
Taxes which are proportioned, not to the Rent, but to the Produce of Land
Taxes upon the Rent of Houses
ARTICLE II. - Taxes on Profit, or upon the Revenue arising from Stock
Taxes upon as Profit of particular Employments
Appendix to Articles 1st and 2d. Taxes upon the Capital Value of Land, Houses, and Stock
ARTICLE III. - Taxes upon the Wages of Labour
ARTICLE IV. - Taxes which, it is intended, should fall indifferently upon every different Species of Revenue
CHAP. III. - Of Public Debts
APPENDIX
The Author's Notes
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The Editor's Notes
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