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 Ranks of the People.

CHAPTER I. V

Of the Division of Labour .

5

CHAPTER II.

Of the Principle which gives occasion to the Division of Labour

14

CHAPTER III. V

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That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the

Market

18

CHAPTER IV. V.

Of the Origin and Use of Money

23

CHAPTER V.

Of the real and nominal Price of Commodities, or of their Price in

Labour and their Price in Money

30

Of Wages and Profit in the different Employments of Labour and

Stock

103

Part I. Inequalities arising from the Nature of the

Employments themselves.

104

Part II. Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe

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Of the Rent of Land .

151

Part I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords

Rent

155

PART II. Of the Produce of Land which sometimes does

and sometimes does not afford Rent

171

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 .

185

Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver during

the course of the four last Centuries.

Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values

of Gold and Silver

221

Grounds of the suspicion that the Value of Silver still

continues to decrease

226

Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon

three different Sorts of rude Produce

227

250

Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in

the Value of Silver .
Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price

of Manufactures

256

Conclusion of the Chapter

261

BOOK II.

Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock.

Of Money considered as a particular Branch of the general Stock

of the Society, or of the Expense of maintaining the National
Capital

283

CHAPTER III. V

Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of productive and unproductive

Labour

332

Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations.

CHAPTER I.

Of the natural Progress of Opulence

381