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    Wealth of Nations
    Wealth of Nations
    Wealth of Nations
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    Wealth of Nations

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    The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, "The Wealth of Nations" is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in the following five books:

    Introduction and plan of the work

    Part 1 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

    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 5 Of the real and nominal Price of Commodities, or of their Price in Labour, and their Price in 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
    1. First Period
    2. Second Period
    3. Third Period
    4. First Sort
    5. Second Sort
    6. Third Sort
    7. Conclusion of the chapter

    Part 2 Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock

    Chapter 1 Of the Division of Stock
    Chapter 2 Of Money considered as a particular Branch of the general Stock of the Society, or of the Experience of maintaining the National Capital
    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 2 Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire
    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 2 Of Restraints upon the Importation from foreign Countries of such Goods as can be produced at Home
    Chapter 3 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
    1. Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints even upon the Principles of the Commercial System
    2. Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints upon other Principles
    Chapter 4 Of Drawbacks
    Chapter 5 Of Bounties
    Chapter 6 Of Treaties of Commerce
    Chapter 7 Of Colonies
    1. Of the Motives for establishing new Colonies
    2. Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies
    3. 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
    Chapter 8 Conclusion of the Mercantile System
    Chapter 9 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

    Part 5 Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

    Chapter 1 Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
    1. Of the Expense of Defence
    2. Of the Expense of Justice
    3. Of the Expense of Public Works and Public Institutions
    4. Of the Expense of Supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign
    5. Conclusion
    Chapter 2 Of the Sources of the general or public Revenue of the Society
    1. Of the Funds or Sources of Revenue which may peculiarly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth
    2. Of Taxes
    Chapter 3 Of public Debts
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe griffin classics
    Release dateSep 13, 2020
    ISBN9782380373820

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