Politics and Government

The Wealth of Nations

By Adam Smith

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Smith's enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover in Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things.

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1Introduction

2INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK.

3BOOK I. 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.

4CHAPTER I. OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR.

5CHAPTER II. OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR.

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6CHAPTER III. THAT THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IS LIMITED BY THE EXTENT OF THE MARKET.

7CHAPTER IV. OF THE ORIGIN AND USE OF MONEY.

8CHAPTER V. OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL PRICE OF COMMODITIES, OR OF THEIR PRICE IN LABOUR, AND THEIR PRICE IN MONEY.

9CHAPTER VI. OF THE COMPONENT PART OF THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES.

10CHAPTER VII. OF THE NATURAL AND MARKET PRICE OF COMMODITIES.

11CHAPTER VIII. OF THE WAGES OF LABOUR.

12CHAPTER IX. OF THE PROFITS OF STOCK.

13CHAPTER X. OF WAGES AND PROFIT IN THE DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS OF LABOUR AND STOCK.

14PART I. Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments themselves.

15PART II.—Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe.

16CHAPTER XI. OF THE RENT OF LAND.

17PART I.—Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent.

18PART II.—Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent.

19PART III.—Of the variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of that sort of Produce which always affords Rent, and of that which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent. (pt. 1)

20PART III.—Of the variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of that sort of Produce which always affords Rent, and of that which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent. (pt. 2)

21Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver.

22Conclusion of the Chapter.

23BOOK II. OF THE NATURE, ACCUMULATION, AND EMPLOYMENT OF STOCK.

24INTRODUCTION.

25CHAPTER I. OF THE DIVISION OF STOCK.

26CHAPTER II. OF MONEY, CONSIDERED AS A PARTICULAR BRANCH OF THE GENERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

27CHAPTER III. OF THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL, OR OF PRODUCTIVE AND UNPRODUCTIVE LABOUR.

28CHAPTER IV. OF STOCK LENT AT INTEREST.

29CHAPTER V. OF THE DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS OF CAPITALS.

30BOOK III. OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRESS OF OPULENCE IN DIFFERENT NATIONS

31CHAPTER I. OF THE NATURAL PROGRESS OF OPULENCE.

32CHAPTER II. OF THE DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

33CHAPTER III. OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

34CHAPTER IV. HOW THE COMMERCE OF TOWNS CONTRIBUTED TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE COUNTRY.

35BOOK IV. OF SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.

36CHAPTER I. OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE COMMERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM.

37CHAPTER II. OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME.

38CHAPTER III. 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.

39Part I—Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the Principles of the Commercial System.

40PART II.—Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints, upon other Principles.

41CHAPTER IV. OF DRAWBACKS.

42CHAPTER V. OF BOUNTIES.

43CHAPTER VI. OF TREATIES OF COMMERCE.

44CHAPTER VII. OF COLONIES.

45PART I. Of the Motives for Establishing New Colonies.

46PART II. Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies.

47PART III. 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.

48CHAPTER VIII. CONCLUSION OF THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM.

49CHAPTER IX. 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.

50APPENDIX TO BOOK IV