Selections from The Wealth of Nations
Samenvatting
This carefully annotated selection features the main analysis of the operation of an economic system, the introductory chapter of the great attack on mercantilism, and portions of the analysis of the functions of the state–Books I, IV, and V. Edited by George J. Stigler, this useful volume includes an introduction and a bibliography.
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<p>Book I</p>
<p>Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labor, and of the Order According to Which Its Produce Is Naturally Distributed among the Different Ranks of the People</p>
<p>Of the Division of Labor 1</p>
<p>Of the Principle which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labor 10</p>
<p>That the Division of Labor Is Limited by the Extent of the Market 14</p>
<p>Of the Origin and Use of Money 19</p>
<p>Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or of Their Price in Labor and Their Price in Money 23</p>
<p>Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities 30</p>
<p>Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities 38</p>
<p>Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labor and Stock 48</p>
<p>Book IV</p>
<p>Of Systems of Political Economy </p>
<p>Introduction 61</p>
<p>Of the Principle of the Commercial of Mercantile System 62</p>
<p>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 87</p>
<p>Book V</p>
<p>Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth </p>
<p>Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 89</p>
<p>Bibliography 116</p>