ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE

FOURTH EDITION.

IN

of

IN this fourth Edition I have made no alterations any kind. I now, however, find myself at liberty to acknowledge my very great obligations to Mr. HENRY HOP of Amfterdam. To that Gentleman I owe the moft diftinct, as well as liberal information, concerning a very interesting and important fubject, the Bank of Amsterdam; of which no printed account had ever appeared to me fatisfactory, or even intelligible. The name of that Gentleman is fo well known in Europe, the information which comes from him muft do fo much honor to whoever has been favored with it, and my vanity is fo much interested in making this acknowledgment, that I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of prefixing this Advertisement to this new Edition of my Book.

Of the Caufes of Improvement in the pro-

ductive Powers of Labor, and of the

Order according to which its Produce

is naturally diftributed among the dif

ferent Ranks of the People

6

CHAP. I.

Of the Divifion of Labor

ibid.

CHAP. I I.

Of the Principle which gives Occafion to the

Divifion of Labor

CHA P. III.

That the Divifion of Labor is limited by the

Extent of the Market

19

26

CHA P. IV.

Of the Origin and Ufe of Money

CHAP. V.

Page 33

Of the real and nominal Price of Commodities,

or of their Price in Labor, and their Price in

Money

СНАР. VI.

Of the component Parts of the Price of Com-

modities

С НА Р. VII.

Of the natural and market Price of Commodities

43

70

82

Of Wages- and Profit in the different Employments

of Labor and Stock

Inequalities arifing from the Nature

151

PART I.

of the Employments themselves

152

PART II. Inequalities occafioned by the Policy

> of Europe

183

CHA P. XI.

Of the Rent of Land

Page 223

PART I. Of the Produce of Land which always

affords Rent

PART II. Of the Produce of Land which

Sometimes does, and fometimes does not, afford

Rent

PART III. Of the Variations in the Propor-

tion between the respective Values of that

Sort of Produce which always affords Rent

and of that which fometimes does and fome-

times does not afford Rent

Digreffion concerning the Variations in the

Value of Silver during the Course of the Four

laft Centuries.

227

252

273

Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement

upon the real Price of three different Sorts of

rude Produce

339