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THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

by Adam Smith
Edited by C. J. Bullock, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Introduction to the New Edition by Prasannan Parthasarathi
Introduction to the New Edition © 2004 by Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Originally published in 1776

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, by Prasannan Parthasarathi
• Volume I
• Introduction and Plan of the Work
• Book I: Of the Causes of Improvement...
  • I.1. Of the Division of Labor
  • I.2. Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour
  • I.3. That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market
  • I.4. Of the Origin and Use of Money
  • I.5. Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or of their Price in Labour, and their Price in Money
  • I.6. Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities
  • I.7. Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities
  • I.8. Of the Wages of Labour
  • I.9. Of the Profits of Stock
  • I.10. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock
  • I.11. Of the Rent of Land
• Book II: Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock
  • II. Introduction
  • II.1. Of the Division of Stock
  • II.2. Of Money Considered as a particular Branch of the General Stock of the Society...
  • II.3. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour
  • II.4. Of Stock Lent at Interest
  • II.5. Of the Different Employment of Capitals
• Book III: Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations
  • III.1. Of the Natural Progress of Opulence
• Book IV: Of Systems of political Economy
  • IV. Introduction
  • IV.1. Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System
  • IV.2. Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of such Goods as can be Produced at Home
  • IV.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
  • IV.4. Of Drawbacks
  • IV.5. Of Bounties
  • IV.6. Of Treaties of Commerce
  • IV.7. Of Colonies
  • IV.8. Conclusion of the Mercantile System
  • IV.9. Of the Agricultural Systems, or of those Systems of Political Œconomy, which Represent the Produce of Land, as either the Sole or the Principal, Source of the Revenue and Wealth of Every Country
• Book V: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
  • V.1. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
  • V.2. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society
  • V.3. Of Public Debts