The Wealth of NationsRandom 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.” |
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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 |
1124 | |
A NOTE ON THE TEXT | 1133 |
READING GROUP GUIDE | 1155 |