Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface xv
4. Editor's Introduction xix
5. Introduction and Plan of the Work 1
6. Volume One
7. 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
8. CHAPTER I Of the Division of Labour 5
9. CHAPTER II Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour 17
10. CHAPTER III That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market 21
11. CHAPTER IV Of the Origin and Use of Money 26
12. CHAPTER V Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or of their Price in Labour, and their Price in Money 34
13. CHAPTER VI Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities 53
14. CHAPTER VII Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities 62
15. CHAPTER VIII Of the Wages of Labour 72
16. CHAPTER IX Of the Profits of Stock 98
17. CHAPTER X Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 111
18. CHAPTER XI Of the Rent of Land 161
19. BOOK II Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock
20. Introduction 291
21. CHAPTER I Of the Division of Stock 294
22. CHAPTER II Of Money Considered as a Particular Branch of the General Stock of the Society, or of the Expence of Maintaining the National Capital 302
23. CHAPTER III Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour 351
24. CHAPTER IV Of Stock Lent at Interest 372
25. CHAPTER V Of the Different Employment of Capitals 381
26. BOOK III Of the different Progress of Opulence in Different Nations
27. CHAPTER I Of the Natural Progress of Opulence 401
28. CHAPTER II Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the Ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire 407
29. CHAPTER III Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, after the Fall of the Roman Empire 420
30. CHAPTER IV How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country 432
31. Book IV OJ Systems of Political CEconomy
32. Introduction 449
33. CHAPTER I Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System 450
34. CHAPTER II Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of such Goods as can be Produced at Home 474
35. CHAPTER 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 496
36. Volume Two
37. BOOK IV 525
38. CHAPTER IV Of Drawbacks 527
39. CHAPTER V Of Bounties 534
40. CHAPTER VI Of Treaties of Commerce 577
41. CHAPTER VII Of Colonies 590
42. CHAPTER VIII Conclusion of the Mercantile System 683
43. CHAPTER 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 706
44. BOOK V Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
45. CHAPTER I Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 737
46. CHAPTER II Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 865
47. CHAPTER III Of Public Debts 965
48. ApPENDIX on the Herring Bounty 1011
49. INDEX I· Subjects 1015
50. INDEX II· Authorities 1087