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قراءة كتاب An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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HARVARD
COLLEGE
LIBRARY
AN
INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES
OF THE
WEALTH OF NATIONS.
BY
ADAM SMITH LL.D. F.R.S.
WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
ALSO,
A VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF SMITH, COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE FRENCH ECONOMISTS;
WITH A METHOD OF FACILITATING THE STUDY OF HIS WORKS;
FROM THE FRENCH OF M. GARNIER.
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
London:
T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;
AND EDINBURGH.
MDCCCLII.
CONTENTS
Page | |
Life of the Author | i |
Short View of the Doctrine of Smith, compared with that of the French Economists | xvii |
Introduction | 1 |
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. | |
CHAP. I. | |
Of the Division of Labour | 2 |
CHAP. II. | |
Of the Principle which gives occasion to the Division of Labour | 6 |
CHAP. III. | |
That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market | 8 |
CHAP. IV. | |
Of the Origin and Use of Money | 9 |
CHAP. V. | |
Of the real and nominal Price of Commodities, or of their Price in Labour, and their Price in Money | 12 |
CHAP. VI. | |
Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities | 20 |
CHAP. VII. | |
Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities | 23 |
CHAP. VIII. | |
Of the Wages of Labour | 27 |
CHAP. IX. | |
Of the Profits of Stock | 36 |
CHAP. X. | |
Of Wages and Profit in the different Employments of Labour and Stock | 41 |
Part I. Inequalities arising from the Nature of the Employments themselves | ib. |
Part II. Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe | 50 |
CHAP. XI. | |
Of the Rent of Land | 60 |
Part I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent | 61 |
Part II. Of the Produce of Land which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent | 68 |
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 | 74 |
Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver during the course of the four last centuries | ib. |
First Period | ib. |
Second Period | 81 |
Third Period | ib. |
Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of Gold and Silver | 89 |
Grounds of the Suspicion that the Value of Silver still continues |