Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith, Mark G. Spencer, and Tom Griffith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Adam, 1723-1790, author.

Spencer, Mark G., author.

Griffith, Tom, author.

Series:

Classics of world literature.

Classics of World Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Economics--History--To 1800.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1291 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ware, England : Wordsworth Editions Limited, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, it mixes plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology and sociology.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Further Reading

Volume One

Introduction: and plan of the work

Book 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

Part 1: Inequalities arising from the Nature of the Employments themselves

Part 2: Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe

Chapter 11: 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: Of the Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of that sort of Produce which always affords Rent, and of that which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent.

Digression concerning the Variations in the value of Silver during the Course of the Four last Centuries

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.

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

Prices of Wheat

Book 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 Expence 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

Book 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 Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country

Book 4: Of Systems of Political Economy

Chapter 1: Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System

Chapter 2: Of Restraints upon 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

Part 1: Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the Principles of the Commercial System

Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly con-cern-ing that of Amsterdam

Part 2: Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints, upon other Principles

Volume Two

Book 4

Chapter 4: Of Drawbacks

Chapter 5: Of Bounties.

Digression concerning the Corn Trade and Corn Laws

Chapter 6: Of Treaties of Commerce

Chapter 7: Of Colonies

Part 1: Of the Motives for Establishing New Colonies

Part 2: Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies

Part 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

Book 5: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

Chapter 1: Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

Part 1: Of the Expence of Defence

Part 2: Of the Expence of Justice

Part 3: Of the Expence of public Works and public Institutions

Part 4: Of the Expence of supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society

Part 1: Of the Funds, or Sources of Revenue, which may peculiarly belong to the Sovereign or Commowealth

Part 2: Of Taxes

Chapter 3: Of Public Debts

Appendix to Book 4.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

946606784