An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Author: Adam Smith (Ed. Edwin Cannan)
Meuthen, 1904
Book I: Of the Causes of Improvement
- 1.1 Overview of the Division of Labor
- 1.2 Principle of the Division of Labor
- 1.3 The Limitation of the Market
- 1.4 The Origin and Use of Money
- 1.5 The Real and Nominal Prices of Commodities
- 1.6 Factors Influencing the Price of Commodities
- 1.7 The Natural and Market Price of Commodities
- 1.8 The Wages of Labor
- 1.9 The Profits of Stock
- 1.10 Differences in Wages and Profits
- 1.11 The Rent of Land
Book II: Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock
- 2.0 Introduction
- 2.1 The Division of Stock
- 2.2 Money as Capital Stock
- 2.3 Productive and Unproductive Labor and the Accumulation of Capital
- 2.4 Stock Lent at Interest
- 2.5 The Different Employment of Capital
Book III: Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations
- 3.1 The Natural Progress of Opulence
- 3.2 The Discouragement of Agriculture in Europe
- 3.3 The Rise and Progress of Towns and Cities
- 3.4 How Commerce Contributed to the Improvement of the Country
Book IV: Of Systems of political Îconomy
- 4.0 Introduction
- 4.1 The Commercial or Mercantile System
- 4.2 Restraints on Importation
- 4.3 Balance of Trade
- 4.4 Drawbacks
- 4.5 Bounties
- 4.6 Treaties of Commerce
- 4.7 Colonies
- 4.8 The Mercantile System
- 4.9 Agricultural Systems
Book V: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth