The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich’s Introduction both clarifies Smith’s analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, “Smith’s mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth century—jobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics.” |
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CONTENTS BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE W INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT REICH xW
INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK xxiii BOOK I Of the Causes of
Improvement in the productive Powers of Labour, and of the Order according to
which ...
INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK The #. of THE annual' labour of
every nation is the fund which annual labour - - - - - - supplies annual originally
supplies t with all the necessaries and conve. consumption, niences of life” which
it ...
Among the savage na#*o: by tions of hunters and fishers, every individual who is
able produce to work, is more or less employed in useful labour, and of civilised
endeavours to provide, as well as he can, the necessaries ieties. - - - - - societies
...
OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR” Division of THE greatest improvement” in the
productive powers of labour is the - - great cause of labour, and the greater part
of the skill, dexterity, and its increased judgment with which it is any where
directed, ...
... the division is not near so obvious, and has accordingly been much less
observed. such as pin- To take an example, therefore," from a very trifling making.
manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken
notice ...
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Digression concerning Banks of Deposit particularly concerning | 510 |
Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary | 520 |
Of Drawbacks | 533 |
Of Bounties | 540 |
Digression concerning the Corn Trade and Corn Laws | 560 |
Of Treaties of Commerce | 585 |
Of Colonies | 599 |
Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies | 609 |
CHAPTER X | 114 |
Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe | 136 |
Of the Rent of Land | 166 |
Of the Produce of Land which sometimes does | 185 |
Of the Variations in the Proportion between | 201 |
Second Period | 219 |
Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values | 242 |
Grounds of the Suspicion that the Value of Silver still continues | 249 |
Third Sort | 262 |
Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in | 273 |
Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price | 278 |
Conclusion of the Chapter | 284 |
Of the Nature Accumulation and Employment of Stock | 299 |
Of Money considered as a particular Branch of the general Stock | 310 |
Of Stock lent at Interest 3 81 | 381 |
Of the different Employment of Capitals | 390 |
Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations | 407 |
Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the ancient State | 413 |
Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns after the Fall of | 426 |
How the Commerce of the Towns contributed to the Improvement | 439 |
Of Systems of political CEconomy | 455 |
Of Restraints upon the Importation from foreign Countries | 481 |
Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from | 638 |
Of the Agricultural Systems or of those Systems of Political | 718 |
Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth | 732 |
Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth | 747 |
Of the Expence of Justice | 766 |
Of the Expence of public Works and public Institutions | 779 |
ARTICLE 2d Of the Expence of the Institutions for the Education | 819 |
ARTICLE 3d Of the Expence of the Institutions for the Instruc | 846 |
Of the Expence of supporting the Dignity of | 876 |
Of Taxes | 887 |
Taxes which are proportioned not to the Rent but to | 900 |
ARTICLE 2d Taxes upon Profit or upon the Revenue arising | 912 |
Taxes upon the Profit of particular Employments | 918 |
APPENDIX To ARTICLE 1st and 2d Taxes upon the Capital Value | 924 |
ARTICLE 3d Taxes upon the Wages of Labour | 931 |
Taxes upon consumable Commodities | 938 |
Of public Debts | 981 |
APPENDIX on the Herring Bounty | 1029 |
Authorities | 1124 |
A NOTE ON THE TEXT | 1133 |
READING GROUP GUIDE | 1155 |