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Wealth of Nations.
Title:
Wealth of Nations.
Author:
Smith, Adam.
ISBN:
9781843270409
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1280 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction and Plan of the Work -- Book One: The Productive Powers of Labour -- Chapter I -- Of the Division of Labour -- Chapter II -- Of the Principle which gives occasion to the Division of Labour -- Chapter III -- That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market -- Chapter IV -- Of the Origin and Use of Money -- Chapter V -- Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or their Price in Labour, and their Price in Money -- Chapter VI -- Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities -- Chapter VII -- Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities -- Chapter VIII -- Of the Wages of Labour -- Chapter IX -- Of the Profits of Stock -- Chapter X -- Of Wages and Profit in the different Employments of Labour and Stock -- PART 1 -- Inequalities arising from the Nature of the Employments themselves -- PART 2 -- Inequalities by the Policy of Europe -- Chapter XI -- Of the Rent of Land -- PART 1 -- Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent -- PART 2 -- Of the Produce of Land which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent -- PART 3 -- -- 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 -- Tables Referred to in Chapter 11, Part 3 -- Book Two: Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock -- Introduction.

Chapter I -- Of the Division of Stock -- Chapter II -- -- Chapter III -- Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour -- Chapter IV -- Of Stock Lent at Interest -- Chapter V -- Book Three: Of the Different Progress of Opulence in Different Nations -- Chapter I -- Chapter II -- Chapter III -- Chapter IV -- Book Four: Of Systems of Political Economy -- Chapter I -- Chapter II -- Chapter III -- PART 1 -- 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 2 -- Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints upon other Principles -- Chapter IV -- Chapter V -- DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE CORN TRADE AND CORN LAWS -- Chapter VI -- Chapter VII -- PART 1 -- Of the Motives for establishing new Colonies -- PART 2 -- Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies -- PART 3 -- -- Chapter VIII -- Chapter IX -- Book Five: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth -- Chapter I -- Chapter II -- PART 1 -- Of the Funds or Sources of Revenue which may peculiarly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth -- PART 2 -- 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 I and II. -- 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 -- Capitation Taxes -- Taxes upon Consumable Commodities -- Chapter III.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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