The Wealth of Nations

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Random House Publishing Group, 2000 M11 14 - 1184 páginas

Adam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich’s Introduction both clarifies Smith’s analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, “Smith’s mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth century—jobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics.”
 
Introduction by Robert Reich • Commentary by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner • Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

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CHAPTER II
14
CHAPTER IV
24
CHAPTER V
33
CHAPTER VII
62
CHAPTER VIII
73
Inequalities arising from the Nature of the Employments
115
Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe
136
CHAPTER XI
166
Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary
520
CHAPTER V
540
Digression concerning the Corn Trade and Corn Laws
560
Of Treaties of Commerce
585
CHAPTER VII
599
Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies
609
Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from
638
BOOK V
747

Of the Produce of Land which sometimes does
185
Of the Variations in the Proportion between
201
Second Period
219
Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values
242
Grounds of the Suspicion that the Value of Silver still continues
249
Third Sort
262
Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in
273
Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price
278
Conclusion of the Chapter
284
BOOK II
299
CHAPTER II
310
CHAPTER V
390
BOOK III
407
CHAPTER II
413
Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns after the Fall of
426
BOOK IV
455
CHAPTER II
481
Digression concerning Banks of Deposit particularly concerning
510
Of the Expence of Justice
766
Of the Expence of public Works and public Institutions
779
ARTICLE 2d Of the Expence of the Institutions for the Education
819
ARTICLE 3d Of the Expence of the Institutions for the Instruc
846
Of the Expence of supporting the Dignity of
876
Of Taxes
887
Taxes which are proportioned not to the Rent but to
900
ARTICLE 2d Taxes upon Profit or upon the Revenue arising
912
Taxes upon the Profit of particular Employments
918
APPENDIX TO ARTICLE 1st and 2d Taxes upon the Capital Value
924
ARTICLE 3d Taxes upon the Wages of Labour
931
Taxes upon consumable Commodities
938
CHAPTER III
981
APPENDIX on the Herring Bounty
1029
Authorities
1124
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
1133
READING GROUP GUIDE
1155
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Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Work of Nations, Reason, Supercapitalism, and Aftershock.

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