The Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith
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The Wealth of Nations
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Table of Contents
Introduction and plan of the work
Chapter 1. Of the Division of Labour
Chapter 2. Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour
Chapter 3. That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market
Chapter 4. Of the Origin and Use of Money
Chapter 6. Of the component Parts of the Price of Commodities
Chapter 7. Of the natural and market Price of Commodities
Chapter 8. Of the Wages of Labour
Chapter 9. Of the Profits of Stock
Chapter 10. Of Wages and Profit in the different Employments of Labour and Stock
Chapter 11. Of the Rent of Land
Part 2. Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock
Chapter 1. Of the Division of Stock
Chapter 3. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of productive and unproductive Labour
Chapter 4. Of Stock lent at Interest
Chapter 5. Of the different Employment of Capitals
Part 3. Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations
Chapter 1. Of the Natural Progress of Opulence
Chapter 3. Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, after the Fall of the Roman Empire
Chapter 4. How the Commerce of the Towns contributed to the Improvement of the Country
Part 4. Of Systems of political Economy
Chapter 1. Of the Principle of the commercial, or mercantile System
Chapter 6. Of Treaties of Commerce
Chapter 8. Conclusion of the Mercantile System
Part 5. Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
Chapter 1. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
Chapter 2. Of the Sources of the general or public Revenue of the Society
Introduction and plan of the work
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be