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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With several strokes of his pen, Smith thereby provided a moral justification for
motives that had been morally suspect in Western thought for thousands of years.
How can self-interested behavior—the “private interests and passions” of men ...
With several strokes of his pen, Smith thereby provided a moral justification for
motives that had been morally suspect in Western thought for thousands of years.
How can self-interested behavior—the “private interests and passions” of men ...
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There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten
persons, therefore, could make among them upwards offortyeight thousand pins
in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand ...
There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten
persons, therefore, could make among them upwards offortyeight thousand pins
in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand ...
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A smith who has been accustomed to make nails, but whose sole or principal
business has not been that of a nailer, can seldom with his utmost diligence
make more than eight hundred or a thousand nails in a day. I have seen several
boys ...
A smith who has been accustomed to make nails, but whose sole or principal
business has not been that of a nailer, can seldom with his utmost diligence
make more than eight hundred or a thousand nails in a day. I have seen several
boys ...
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... assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a
civilized country could not be provided, ... latter exceeds that of many an African
king, the absolute masterofthelives and liberties often thousand naked savages.
... assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a
civilized country could not be provided, ... latter exceeds that of many an African
king, the absolute masterofthelives and liberties often thousand naked savages.
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Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a day, and three hundred working
days in the year, will make three hundred thousand nails in the year. But in such
a situation it would be impossible to dispose of one thousand, that is, of one ...
Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a day, and three hundred working
days in the year, will make three hundred thousand nails in the year. But in such
a situation it would be impossible to dispose of one thousand, that is, of one ...
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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 |
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書目資訊
| 書名 | The Wealth of Nations Modern Library Modern library of the world's best books |
| 作者 | Adam Smith |
| 著作人 | Robert B. Reich |
| 出版者 | Random House Publishing Group, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0679641920, 9780679641926 |
| 頁數 | 1200 頁 |
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