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-- Books I, II, III, IV and V --
Adam Smith
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IN this edition references are made to corresponding pages of the best modern edition of the Wealth of Nations: the second volume of The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith [1]. These references are printed as margin notes. For example, `G.ed.p26' means `page 26 of the Glasgow Edition'.
Smith's own footnotes are marked with `[Smith]' in bold face just before the footnote. Paragraph number are printed inside brackets on the left margin and the numbering restarts at the beginning of every section.
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Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Edited by S. M. Soares. MetaLibri Digital Library, 29th May 2007.
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CONTENTS
Editorial Note
iii
Advertisement to the Third Edition
2
Advertisement to the Fourth Edition
3
Introduction and Plan of the Work
4
BOOK 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
7
CHAPTER I
Of the Division of Labour
8
CHAPTER II
Of the Principle which gives occasion to the Division of Labour
15
CHAPTER III That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market 18
CHAPTER IV
Of the Origin and Use of Money
22
CHAPTER V
Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or their Price in
Labour, and their Price in Money
28
CHAPTER VI
Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities
41
CHAPTER VII
Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities
47
CHAPTER VIII
Of the Wages of Labour
55
CHAPTER IX
Of the Profits of Stock
73
CHAPTER X
Of Wages and Profit in the different Employments of Labour and
Stock
82
Part I. Inequalities arising from the Nature of the Employments
themselves
83
Part II. Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe
97
CHAPTER XI
Of the Rent of Land
117
Part I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent
119
Part II. Of the Produce of Land which sometimes does, and
sometimes does not, afford Rent
131
Part 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
141
Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver during
the Course of the Four last Centuries
143
FIRST PERIOD
143
SECOND PERIOD
154
THIRD PERIOD
155
Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of Gold and
Silver
168
Grounds of the Suspicion that the Value of Silver still continues to
decrease
172
Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real price of
three different Sorts of rude Produce
173
First Sort
173
Second Sort
175
Third Sort
182
Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of
Silver
190
Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price of
Manufactures
194
CONCLUSION of the CHAPTER
198
BOOK II
Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock
211
Introduction
212
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