An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1280 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Electric Book Co., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first comprehensive treatment of political economy. A fierce attack on the mercantile system, Smith argues that labour, and in more advanced society, wages, profit and rent, are the standard of value and source of life.

Contents:

Intro

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

Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent

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

Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour

Of Stock Lent at Interest

Book Three: Of the Different Progress of Opulence in Different Nations

Book Four: Of Systems of Political Economy

Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints even upon the Principles of the Commercial System

DIGRESSION CONCERNING BANKS OF DEPOSIT, PARTICULARLY CONCERNING THAT OF AMSTERDAM

Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints upon other Principles

DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE CORN TRADE AND CORN LAWS

Of the Motives for establishing new Colonies

Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies

Book Five: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

Of the Funds or Sources of Revenue which may peculiarly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth

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.

Notes:

Cover title : The Wealth of nations.

ISBN:

1-281-24076-1

1-4619-1136-2

9786611240769

OCLC:

70749190