The Wealth of Nations/Volume 2
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THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
BY
ADAM SMITH, LL.D
PART TWO
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NEW YORK
P. F. COLLIER & SON
MCMII
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CONTENTS
VOLUME TWO
BOOK II—CONTINUED Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock
Chap. III. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of productive and unproductive Labor7 IV. Of Stock lent at Interest34 V. Of the different Employment of Capitals46 BOOK III Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations
Chap. I. Of the natural Progress of Opulence68 II. Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire75 III. Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, after the Fall of the Roman Empire91 IV. How the Commerce of the Towns contributed to the Improvement of the Country106 BOOK IV Of Systems of Political Economy
- Introduction
124 Chap. I. Of the Principle of the Commercial, or Mercantile System124 II. Of Restraints upon the Importation from foreign Countries of such Goods as can be produced at Home156 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 disadvantageous184 - Part I. Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints even upon the Principles of the Commercial System
184 ​ - Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly concerning that of Amsterdam
192 - Part II. Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints upon other Principles
206 IV. Of Drawbacks220 V. Of Bounties227 - Digression concerning the Corn Trade and Corn Laws
252 VI. Of Treaties of Commerce280 VII. Of Colonies297 - Part I. Of the Motives for establishing new Colonies
297 - Part II. Causes of the Prosperity of new Colonies
309 - 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
345 VIII. Conclusion of the Mercantile System417