The Essence of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

Why We All Need to Read Adam Smith

Book One: Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Power of Labor and of the Order According to Which Its Produce is Naturally Distributed among the Different Ranks of the People

1: Of the Division of Labor

2: Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labor

3: That the Division of Labor Is Limited by the Extent of the Market

4: Of the Origin and Use of Money

5: Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or of Their Price in Labor, and Their Price in Money

6: Of the Component Part of the Price of Commodities

7: Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities

8: Of the Wages of Labor

9: Of the Profits of Stock

10: Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labor and Stock

11: Of the Rent of Land

Book Two: Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock

1: Of the Division of Stock

2: Of Money Considered as a Particular Branch of the General Stock of the Society

3: Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labor

4: Of Stock Lent at Interest

5: Of the Different Employment of Capitals

Book Three: Of the Different Progress of Opulence in Different Nations

1: Of the Natural Progress of Opulence

Book Four: Of Systems of Political Economy

1: Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System

2: Of Restraints upon Importation from Foreign Countries of Such Goods as Can Be Produced at Home

3: 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

4: Of Drawbacks

5: Of Bounties

6: Of Treaties of Commerce

7: Conclusion of the Mercantile System

8: Of the Agricultural 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 Five: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 1: Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

2: Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society

3: Of Public Debts

Endnotes

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