Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith

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      Table of Contents

       Wealth of Nations Adam Smith

       Introduction and plan of the work

       Part 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

       Chapter 11 Of the Rent of Land

       1. First Period

       2. Second Period

       3. Third Period

       4. First Sort

       5. Second Sort

       6. Third Sort

       7. Conclusion of the chapter

       Part 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 Experience 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

       Part 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 the Towns contributed to the Improvement of the Country

       Part 4 Of Systems of political Economy

       Chapter 1 Of the Principle of the commercial, or mercantile System

       Chapter 2 Of Restraints upon the 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

       1. Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints even upon the Principles of the Commercial System

       2. Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints upon other Principles

       Chapter 4 Of Drawbacks

       Chapter 5 Of Bounties

       Chapter 6 Of Treaties of Commerce

       Chapter 7 Of Colonies

       1. Of the Motives for establishing new Colonies

       2. Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies

       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

       Part 5 Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth Chapter 1 Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth