INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK
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
CHAPTER I
OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR
CHAPTER II
OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF
LABOUR
CHAPTER III
THAT THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IS LIMITED BY THE EXTENT OF THE
MARKET
CHAPTER IV
OF THE ORIGIN AND USE OF MONEY
CHAPTER V
OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL PRICE OF COMMODITIES, OR OF THEIR
PRICE IN LABOUR, AND THEIR PRICE IN MONEY
CHAPTER VI
OF THE COMPONENT PART OF THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES
CHAPTER VII
OF THE NATURAL AND MARKET PRICE OF COMMODITIES
CHAPTER VIII
OF THE WAGES OF LABOUR
CHAPTER IX
OF THE PROFITS OF STOCK
CHAPTER X
OF WAGES AND PROFIT IN THE DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS OF
LABOUR AND STOCK
PART I. Inequalities arising from the Nature of the Employments themselves..
PART II. Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe
CHAPTER XI
OF THE RENT OF LAND
PART I.Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent
PART II. Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and sometimes does not
afford Rent
PART III. Ofthe 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
Digression concerning the Variations in the value of Silver during the Course of
the Four last Centuries. First Period
Second Period
Third Period
Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of Gold and Silver
Grounds of the suspicion that the Value of Silver still continues to decrease
Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon three different sorts of rude
Produce
First Sort
Second sort
Third Sort
Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver
Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price of Manufactures
Conclusion of the Chapter
BOOK II
Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
OF THE DIVISION OF STOCK
CHAPTER II
OF MONEY, CONSIDERED AS A PARTICULAR BRANCH OF THE
GENERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF
MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
CHAPTER III
OF THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL, OR OF PRODUCTIVE AND
UNPRODUCTIVE LABOUR
CHAPTER IV
OF STOCK LENT AT INTEREST
CHAPTER V
OF THE DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS OF CAPITALS
BOOK III
Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations
CHAPTER I
OF THE NATURAL PROGRESS OF OPULENCE
CHAPTER II
OF THE DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE
OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
CHAPTER III
OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
CHAPTER IV
HOW THE COMMERCE OF TOWNS CONTRIBUTED TO THE
IMPROVEMENT OF THE COUNTRY
BOOK IV
Of Systems of political Economy
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE COMMERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM
CHAPTER II
OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF
SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME
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
Part I Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the Principles of the
Commercial System
Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly concerning that of
Amsterdam
PART II. Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints, upon other
Principles
CHAPTER IV
OF DRAWBACKS
CHAPTER V
OF BOUNTIES
CHAPTER VI
OF TREATIES OF COMMERCE
CHAPTER VII
OF COLONIES
PART I.Of the Motives for establishing new Colonies
PART II. Causes of the Prosperity of new Colonies
PART III. Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of
America, and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope.
CHAPTER VIII
CONCLUSION OF THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM
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
BOOK V
Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
CHAPTER I
OF THE EXPENSES OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH
PART I.Of the Expense of Defence
PART II. Of the Expense of Justice
PART III. Of the Expense of public Works and public Institutions
ARTICLE I. Of the public Works and Institutions for facilitating the Commerce of
the Society And, first, of those which are necessary for facilitating Commerce in
general
Of the public Works and Institution which are necessary for facilitating particular
Branches of Commerce
ARTICLE II. Of the Expense of the Institution for the Education of Youth
ARTICLE III. Of the Expense of the Institutions for the Instruction of People of
all Ages
PART IV. Of the Expense of supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign
CONCLUSION OF THE CHAPTER
CHAPTER II
OF THE SOURCES OF THE GENERAL OR PUBLIC REVENUE OF THE
SOCIETY
PART I. Of the Funds, or Sources, of Revenue, which may peculiarly belong to
the Sovereign or Commonwealth
PART II. Of Taxes
ARTICLE I. Taxes upon Rent. Taxes upon the Rent of Land
Taxes which are proportioned, not in the Rent, but to the Produce of Land
Taxes upon the Rent of Houses
ARTICLE II. Taxes upon Profit, or upon the Revenue arising from Stock
Taxes upon the Profit of particular Employments
APPENDIX TO ARTICLES I. AND II. Taxes upon the Capital Value of Land,
Houses, and Stock
ARTICLE III. Taxes upon the Wages of Labour
ARTICLE IV. Taxes which it is intended should fall indifferently upon every
different Species of Revenue
Capitation Taxes
Taxes upon Consumable Commodities
CHAPTER III
OF PUBLIC DEBTS
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