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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At a few miles distance it falls to eight pence, the usual price of common labour
through the greater part of the low country of Scotland, where it varies a good
deal less than in England.” Such a difference of prices, which it seems is not
always ...
The price of labour, on the contrary, is dearer in England than in Scotland. If the
labouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in the one part of the united
kingdom, they must be in affluence in the other. Oatmeal indeed supplies the ...
common labour are now eight-pence a day; ten-pence, sometimes a shilling
about Edinburgh, in the counties which border upon England, probably on
account of that neighbourhood, and in a few other places where there has lately
been a ...
In Scotland, though the legal rate of interest is the same in Scotland, a as in
England, the market rate is rather higher. People of *::::::::..., the best credit there
seldom borrow under five per cent. than in England. - - - - Even private bankers in
...
The wages of labour, it has already been observed, are lower in Scotland than in
England.” The country too is not only much poorer, but the steps by which it
advances to a better condition, for it is evidently advancing, seem to be much
slower ...
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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 |
| 匯出書目資料 | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |