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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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