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Introduction to the Transaction Edition | vii | |
Preface to the Sixth Edition | 5 | |
Preface to the Fifth Edition | 8 | |
Introduction | 15 | |
Book I. | Of the Production of Wealth | |
Chap. I. | Of what is to be understood by the term production | 61 |
Chap. II. | Of the different kinds of industry, and the mode in which they concur in production | 63 |
Chap. III. | Of the nature of capital, and the mode in which it concurs in the business of production | 71 |
Chap. IV. | Of natural agents, that assist in the production of wealth, and specially of land | 74 |
Chap. V. | On the mode in which industry, capital, and natural agents unite in production | 77 |
Chap. VI. | Of operations alike common to all branches of industry | 79 |
Chap. VII. | Of the labour of mankind, of nature, and of machinery respectively | 85 |
Chap. VIII. | Of the advantages and disadvantages resulting from division of labour; and of the extent to which it may be carried | 90 |
Chap. IX. | Of the different methods of employing commercial industry, and the mode in which they concur in production | 99 |
Chap. X. | Of the transformations undergone by capital, in the progress of production | 105 |
Chap. XI. | Of the formation and multiplication of capital | 109 |
Chap. XII. | Of unproductive capital | 118 |
Chap. XIII. | Of immaterial products, or values consumed at the moment of production | 119 |
Chap. XIV. | Of the right of property | 127 |
Chap. XV. | Of the demand or market for products | 132 |
Chap. XVI. | Of the benefits resulting from the quick circulation of money and commodities | 140 |
Chap. XVII. | Of the effect of governments, intended to influence production | 143 |
Sect. 1. | Effect of regulations prescribing the nature of products | 143 |
Digression--Upon what is called the balance of trade | 148 | |
Sect. 2. | Of the effect of regulations, fixing the manner of production | 175 |
Sect. 3. | Of privileged trading companies | 183 |
Sect. 4. | Of regulations affecting the corn trade | 189 |
Chap. XVIII. | Of the effect upon national wealth, resulting from the productive efforts of public authority | 199 |
Chap. XIX. | Of colonies and their products | 203 |
Chap. XX. | Of temporary and permanent emigration, considered in reference to national wealth | 213 |
Chap. XXI. | Of the nature and uses of money | |
Sect. 1. | General remarks | 217 |
Sect. 2. | Of the material of money | 220 |
Sect. 3. | Of the accession of value a commodity receives, by being vested with the character of money | 224 |
Sect. 4. | Of the utility of coinage; and of the charge of its execution | 228 |
Sect. 5. | Of alterations of the standard-money | 234 |
Sect. 6. | Of the reason why money is neither a sign nor a measure | 240 |
Sect. 7. | Of a peculiarity, that should be attended to, in estimating the sums mentioned in history | 248 |
Sect. 8. | Of the absence of any fixed ratio of value between one metal and another | 254 |
Sect. 9. | Of money as it ought to be | 256 |
Sect. 10. | Of a copper and brass metal coinage | 261 |
Sect. 11. | Of the preferable form of coined money | 262 |
Sect. 12. | Of the party on whom the loss of coin by wear should properly fall | 263 |
Chap. XXII. | Of signs or representatives of money | |
Sect. 1. | Of bills of exchange and letters of credit | 265 |
Sect. 2. | Of banks of deposite | 268 |
Sect. 3. | Of banks of circulation or discount, and of bank notes, or convertible paper | 270 |
Sect. 4. | Of paper-money | 280 |
Book II. | Of the Distribution of Wealth | |
Chap. I. | Of the basis of value, and of supply and demand | 284 |
Chap. II. | Of the sources of revenue | 292 |
Chap. III. | Of real and relative variation of price | 297 |
Chap. IV. | Of nominal variation of price, and of the peculiar value of bullion and of coin | 306 |
Chap. V. | Of the manner in which revenue is distributed amongst society | 314 |
Chap. VI. | Of what branches of production yield the most liberal recompense to productive agency | 321 |
Chap. VII. | Of the revenue of industry | |
Sect. 1. | Of the profits of industry in general | 324 |
Sect. 2. | Of the profits of the man of science | 228 |
Sect. 3. | Of the profits of the master-agent or adventurer in industry | 229 |
Sect. 4. | Of the profits of the operative labourer | 332 |
Sect. 5. | Of the independence accruing to the moderns from the advancement of industry | 340 |
Chap. VIII. | Of the revenue of capital | |
Sect. 1. | Of loans at interest | 343 |
Sect. 2. | Of the profit of capital | 354 |
Sect. 3. | Of the employments of capital most beneficial to society | 357 |
Chap. IX. | Of the revenue of land: | |
Sect. 1. | Of the profit of landed property | 359 |
Sect. 2. | Of rent | 365 |
Chap. X. | Of the effect of revenue derived by one nation from another | 368 |
Chap. XI. | Of the mode in which the quantity of the product affects population | |
Sect. 1. | Of population, as connected with political economy | 371 |
Sect. 2. | Of the influence of the quality of a national product upon the local distribution of the population | 381 |
Book III. | Of the Consumption of Wealth | |
Chap. I. | Of the different kinds of consumption | 387 |
Chap. II. | Of the effect of consumption in general | 391 |
Chap. III. | Of the effect of productive consumption | 393 |
Chap. IV. | Of the effect of unproductive consumption in general | 396 |
Chap. V. | Of individual consumption, its motives and its effects | 401 |
Chap. VI. | On public consumption | |
Of the nature and general effect of public consumption | 412 | |
Of the principal objects of national expenditure | 421 | |
Of the charge of civil and judicious administration | 425 | |
Of charges, military and naval | 429 | |
Of the charges of public instruction | 432 | |
Of the charges of public benevolent institutions | 438 | |
Of the charges of public edifices and works | 441 | |
Chap. VII. | Of the actual contributors to public consumption | 444 |
Chap. VIII. | Of taxation | |
Sect. 1. | Of the effect of all kinds of taxation in general | 446 |
Sect. 2. | Of the different modes of assessment, and the classes they press upon respectively | 468 |
Sect. 3. | Of taxation in kind | 473 |
Sect. 4. | Of the territorial or land-tax of England | 476 |
Chap. IX. | Of national debt | |
Sect. 1. | Of the contracting debt by national authority, and of its general effect | 477 |
Sect. 2. | Of public credit, its basis, and the circumstances that endanger its solidity | 482 |
Appendix | 488 |
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