Of The Discouragement Of Agriculture In The Ancient State Of Europe After The Fall Of The Roman Empire
When the German and Scythian nations overran the western provinces of the Roman empire, the confusions which followed so great a revolution lasted for several centuries. The rapine and violence which the barbarians exercised against the ancient inha... Of The Division Of Labour
The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour. The effects of the div... Of The Division Of Stock
When the stock which a man possesses is no more than sufficient to maintain him for a few days or a few weeks, he seldom thinks of deriving any revenue from it. He consumes it as sparingly as he can, and endeavours, by his labour, to acquire somethi... Of The Expenses Of The Sovereign Or Commonwealth
PART I. Of the Expense of Defence. The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force. But the expense both of prepari... Of The Extraordinary Restraints Upon The Importation Of Goods Of Almost All Kinds
Part I--Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the Principles of the Commercial System. To lay extraordinary restraints upon the importation of goods of almost all kinds, from those particular countries with which the balance of t... Of The Natural And Market Price Of Commodities
There is in every society or neighbourhood an ordinary or average rate, both of wages and profit, in every different employment of labour and stock. This rate is naturally regulated, as I shall shew hereafter, partly by the general circumstances of ... Of The Natural Progress Of Opulence
The great commerce of every civilized society is that carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country. It consists in the exchange of rude for manufactured produce, either immediately, or by the intervention of money, or of s... Of The Origin And Use Of Money
When the division of labour has been once thoroughly established, it is but a very small part of a man's wants which the produce of his own labour can supply. He supplies the far greater part of them by exchanging that surplus part of the produce of... Of The Principle Of The Commercial Or Mercantile System
That wealth consists in money, or in gold and silver, is a popular notion which naturally arises from the double function of money, as the instrument of commerce, and as the measure of value. In consequence of its being the instrument of commerce, w... Of The Principle Which Gives Occasion To The Division Of Labour
This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, con... Of The Profits Of Stock
The rise and fall in the profits of stock depend upon the same causes with the rise and fall in the wages of labour, the increasing or declining state of the wealth of the society; but those causes affect the one and the other very differently. T... Of The Real And Nominal Price Of Commodities Or Of Their Price In Labour And Their Price In Money
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniencies, and amusements of human life. But after the division of labour has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small part of these wi... Of The Rent Of Land
Rent, considered as the price paid for the use of land, is naturally the highest which the tenant can afford to pay in the actual circumstances of the land. In adjusting the terms of the lease, the landlord endeavours to leave him no greater share o... Of The Rise And Progress Of Cities And Towns After The Fall Of The Roman Empire
The inhabitants of cities and towns were, after the fall of the Roman empire, not more favoured than those of the country. They consisted, indeed, of a very different order of people from the first inhabitants of the ancient republics of Greece and ... Of The Sources Of The General Or Public Revenue Of The Society
The revenue which must defray, not only the expense of defending the society and of supporting the dignity of the chief magistrate, but all the other necessary expenses of government, for which the constitution of the state has not provided any part...

Of Drawbacks That The Division Of Labour Is Limited By The Extent Of The Market Conclusion Of The Mercantile System Of The Wages Of Labour Of Bounties Of The Division Of Labour Of The Origin And Use Of Money Of The Extraordinary Restraints Upon The Importation Of Goods Of Almost All Kinds

Introduction To Stock Theory Of The Different Employments Of Capitals Of The Profits Of Stock Of The Component Part Of The Price Of Commodities How The Commerce Of Towns Contributed To The Improvement Of The Country Of The Natural And Market Price Of Commodities Of Treaties Of Commerce Of Colonies