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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · Public domain text
420,663 words · about 29 h 27 min to read
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, usually referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is a book by Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. Published on 9 March 1776 as Smith's central intellectual project, the treatise sought to examine and explain the underlying political and economic principles by which commercial and industrial societies generate wealth. It has become a fundamental work in classical economics, and been described as "the first formulation of a comprehensive system of political economy".
- Authors
- Adam Smith (1723–1790), M. Garnier (1754–1821)
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Economics
- Length
- 420,663 words · about 29 h 27 min
- Sections
- 33 reader sections · Table of contents
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #38194
Contents (33)
- Opening under 1 min
- Book I about 1 min
- II. Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe 50 under 1 min
- II. Of the Produce of Land which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent 68 about 1 min
- II. OF THE NATURE, ACCUMULATION, AND EMPLOYMENT OF STOCK under 1 min
- III. OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRESS OF OPULENCE IN DIFFERENT NATIONS under 1 min
- IV. OF THE SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY under 1 min
- II. Of the Unreasonableness of these extraordinary Restraints, upon other Principles 199 under 1 min
- II. Causes of the Prosperity of new Colonies 231 under 1 min
- Appendix under 1 min
- V. OF THE REVENUE OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH under 1 min
- III. Of the Expense of Public Works and Public Institutions 302 under 1 min
- IV. Of the Expense of supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign 342 under 1 min
- II. Of Taxes 347 about 1 h 12 min
- Book I about 2 h 38 min
- I. Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments themselves. about 33 min
- II. Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe. about 47 min
- I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent. about 27 min
- II. Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent. about 2 h 51 min
- Introduction about 2 h 55 min
- III. OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRESS OF OPULENCE IN DIFFERENT NATIONS about 1 h 9 min
- Introduction about 1 h 43 min
- II. Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints, upon other Principles. about 1 h 56 min
- Part I about 16 min
- Part II about 45 min
- Part III about 2 h 57 min
- V. OF THE REVENUE OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH under 1 min
- Part I about 30 min
- Part II about 22 min
- Part III about 2 h 37 min
- Part IV about 4 min
- Part I about 14 min
- Part II about 5 h 27 min
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