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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Canaan ed.

by Adam Smith

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An edition of An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (1937)

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Canaan ed.

"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (generally referred to by the short title The Wealth of Nations) is the masterpiece of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. It was first published in 1776. It is an account of economics at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, as well as a rhetorical piece written for the generally educated individual of the 18th century - advocating a free market economy as more productive and more beneficial to society. The book is often considered to have laid the basic groundwork for modern economic theory" -- from Wikipedia.

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1937

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The Modern library

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English

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976

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Book one: Of the division of labour

Of the principle which gives occasion to the division of labour

That the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market

Of the origin and use of money

Of the real and nominal price of commodities, or of their price in labour, and their price is money

Of the component parts of the price of commodities

Of the natural and market price of commodities

Of the wages of labour

Of the profits of stock

Of wages and profit in the different employments of labour and stock: Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments themselves

Inequalities occasioned by the policy of Europe

Of the rent of land: Of the produce of land which always affords rent

Of the produce of land which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford rent

Book two: Of the division of stock

Of money considered as a particular branch of the general stock of society, or of the expence of maintaining the natural capital

Of the accumulation of capital, or of productive and unproductive labour

Of stock lent at an interest

Of the different employment of capitals

Book three: Of the different progress of opulence in different nations

Of the natural progress of opulence

Of the discouragement of agriculture in the ancient state of Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire

Of the rise and progress of cities and towns after the fall of the Roman Empire

How the commerce of the towns contributed to the improvement of the country

Book four: Of systems of poitical economy

Of the principle of the commercial, or mercantile system

Of the restraints upon the importation from foreign countries of such goods as can be produced at home

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: Of the unreasonableness of those restraints even upon the principles of the commercial system

Of the unreasonableness of those extraordinary restraints upon other principles

Of drawbacks

Of bounties

Of treaties of commerce

Of colonies: Of the motives for establishing new colonies

Causes of the prosperity of new colonies

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

Conclusion of the mercantile system

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 of every country

Book five: Of the revenue of the sovereign or commonwealth: Of the expences of defence

Of the expence of justice

Of the expence of public works and public institutions

Of the expence of supporting the dignity of the sovereign

Of the sources of the general or public revenue of the society: Of the funds or sources of revenue which may peculiarly belong to the sovereign or commonwealth

Of taxes

Of public debts.

Edition Notes

"First Modern library edition 1937."

"The text of the present edition is copied from that of the fifth, the last published before Adam Smith's death."--Pref.

"Authorities": p. 971-976.

Published in: New York
Series: The Modern library of the world's best books, Modern library of the world's best books
Other Titles: Wealth of nations, Wealth of nations.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 330.1
Library of Congress: HB161 .S65 1937

The Physical Object

Pagination: lx, 976 p. :
Number of pages: 976

ID Numbers

Open Library: OL24757627M
Internet Archive: inquiryintonatu00smit
LCCN: 37003720
OCLC/WorldCat: 167332

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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

by Adam Smith