Copyright, 1909

BY P. F. COLLIER & SON

MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A.

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CONTENTS

BOOK I

OF THE Causes of ImprovEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE Power

of Labour, and of the Order according TO WHICH ITS

PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFER-

ENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE

PAGE

9

CHAP.

I. Of the Division of Labour

9

II. Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of

Labour

18

III. That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the

Market

IV. Of the Origin and Use of Money

V. Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or of Their

Price in Labour, and Their Price in Money

VI. Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities

VII. Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities

VIII. Of the Wages of Labour

IX. Of the Profits of Stock

X. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of

Labour and Stock

XI. Of the Rent of Land

90

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147

BOOK II

CHAP.

OF THE NATURE, ACCUMULATION, AND EMPLOYMENT OF STOCK 212

I. Of the Division of Stock

215

III. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Un-

productive Labour

IV. Of Stock Lent at Interest

V. Of the Different Employment of Capitals.

II. Of Money Considered as a Particular Branch of the General

Stock of the Society, or of the Expence of Maintaining

the National Capital

I. Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System . 311

II. Of Restraints Upon the Importation from Foreign Countries

of Such Goods as Can Be Produced at Home

332

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 . 353

IV. Of Drawbacks.

V. Of Bounties

VI. Of Treaties of Commerce

VII. Of Colonies

VIII. Conclusion of the Mercantile System

IX. Of the Agricultural Systems, or of the 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

CHAP.

OF THE REVENUE OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH

I. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

II. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the So-

ciety

III. Of Public Debts

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