An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Book I. Of the division of labour. Of the principle which gives occasion to the division of labour -- That the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market -- Of the origin and use of money -- Of the real and nominal price of commodities, or of their price in labour, and their price is money -- Of the component parts of the price of commodities -- Of the natural and market price of commodities -- Of the wages of labour -- Of the profits of stock -- Of wages and profit in the different employments of labour and stock -- part 1. Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments themselves -- part II. Inequalities occasioned by the policy of Europe -- Of the rent of land -- part I. Of the produce of land which always affords rent -- part II. Of the produce of land which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford rent -- part III. Of the variations in the proportion between the respective values of that sort of produce which always affords rent, and of that which sometimes does and sometimes does not afford rent -- Book II. Of the nature, accumulation and employment of stock. Introduction -- Of the division of stock -- Of money considered as a particular branch of the general stock of the society, or of the expence of maintaining the national capital -- Of the accumulation of capital, or of productive and unproductive labour -- Of stock lent at an interest -- Of the different employment of capitals -- Book III. Of the different progress of opulence in different nations. Of the natural progress of opulence -- Of the discouragement of agriculture in the ancient state of Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire -- Of the rise and progress of cities and towns after the fall of the Roman Empire -- How the commerce of the towns contributed to the improvement of the country --

Book IV. Of systems of political economy. Introduction

Of the principle of the commercial, or mercantile system

Of restraints upon the importation from foreign countries of such goods as can be produced at home

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. Part I. Of the unreasonableness of those restraints even upon the principles of the commercial system

part II. Of the unreasonableness of those extraordinary restraints upon other principles

Of drawbacks

Of bounties

Of treaties of commerce

Of colonies. Part I. Of the motives for establishing new colonies

part II. Causes of the prosperity of new colonies

part III. Of the advantages which Europe has derived from the discovery of America, and from that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope

Conclusion of the mercantile system

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

Book V. Of the revenue of the sovereign or commonwealth. Of the expences of defence

Of the expence of justice

Of the expence of public works and public institutions

Of the expence of supporting the dignity of the sovereign

Conclusion of the chapter

Of the sources of the general or public revenue of the society. Part I. Of the funds or sources of revenue which may peculiarly belong to the sovereign or commonwealth

Of taxes

Of public debts

Appendix on the Herring Bounty.

Bk. 1. Of the causes of improvement in the productive powers of labour, and of the order according to which its produce is naturally distributed among the different ranks of the people

Bk. 2. Of the nature, accumulation, and employment of stock

Bk. 3. Of the different progress of opulence in different nations

Bk. 4. Of systems of political economy

Bk. 5. Of the revenue of the sovereign or commonwealth.

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 different ranks of the people: Of the Division of Labour

Of the principle which gives occasion to the Division of Labour

That the Divisioin of Labour is limited by the extent of the market

Of the origin and use of money

Of the real and nominal price of commodities, or of their price in labour, and their price in money

Of the component parts of the price of commodities

Of the natural and market price of commodities

Of the ages of labor

Of the profits of stock

Of wages and profit in the different employments of labour and stock

Of the rent of land

Book II: Of the nature, accumulation, and employment of stock: Of the Division of Stock

Of money considered as a particular branch of the general stock of the society, or of the expence of maintaining the national capital

Of the accumulation of capital, or of productive and unproductive labour

Of stock lent at interest

Of the different employment of capitals

Book III: Of the different progress of Opulence in different nations: Of the natural progress of opulence

Book IV: Of systems of political economy: Of the principle of the commercial or mercantile system

Of restraints upon the importation from foreign countries of such goods as can be produced at home

Of the extraordinary restraints upon the importation of goods of almost all kinds, from those countries with which the balance is supposed to be disadventageous

Of drawbacks

Of bounties

Of treaties of commerce

Of colonies

Conclusion of the mercantile system

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: Of the revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

Of the expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

Of the sources of the general or public revenue of the society

Of public debts.

Of the division of labour

Of the principle which gives occasion to the division of labour

That the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market

Of the origin and use of money

Of the real and nominal price of commodities, or of their price in labour, and their price in money

Of the component parts of the price of commodities

Of the natural and market price of commodities

Of the wages of labour

Of the profits of stock

Of wages and profit in the different employments of labour and stock

Of the rent of land

Of the division of stock

Of money considered as a particular branch of the general stock of the society, or of the expence of maintaining the national capital

Of the accumulation of capital, or of productive and unproductive labour

Of stock lent at interest

Of the different employment of capitals

Of the natural progress of opulence

Of the principle of the commercial or mercantile system

Of restraints upon the importation from foreign countries of such goods as can be produced at home

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

Of drawbacks

Of bounties

Of treaties of commerce

Of colonies

Conclusion of the mercantile system

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

Of the expences of the sovereign or commonwealth

Of the sources of the general or public revenue of the society

Of public debts.