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The Wealth of Nations
Chapitres (41)
- Editor’s Introduction 0:00
- Introduction and Plan of the Work 1:28:49
- Book I 1:35:54
- I: Of the Division of Labour 1:36:08
- II: Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour 1:58:14
- III: That the Division of Labour Is Limited by the Extent of the Market 2:08:28
- IV: Of the Origin and Use of Money 2:20:01
- V: Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or of Their Price in Labour, and Their Price in Money 2:37:01
- VI: Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities 3:21:55
- VII: Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities 3:40:19
- VIII: Of the Wages of Labour 4:03:36
- IX: Of the Profits of Stock 5:04:16
- X: Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 5:32:12
- XI: Of the Rent of Land 7:30:56
- Book II 12:19:00
- Introduction 12:19:07
- I: Of the Division of Stock 12:24:27
- II: Of Money Considered as a Particular Branch of the General Stock of the Society, or of the Expense of Maintaining the National Capital 12:44:47
- III: Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour 14:48:01
- IV: Of Stock Lent at Interest 15:40:04
- V: Of the Different Employment of Capitals 16:02:02
- Book III 16:43:50
- I: Of the Natural Progress of Opulence 16:43:57
- II: Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the Ancient State of Europe After the Fall of the Roman Empire 16:56:55
- III: Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, After the Fall of the Roman Empire 17:27:17
- IV: How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country 17:55:40
- Book IV 18:29:23
- Introduction 18:29:29
- I: Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System 18:30:31
- II: Of Restraints Upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of Such Goods as Can Be Produced at Home 19:30:55
- 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 Disadvantageous 20:24:51
- IV: Of Drawbacks 21:33:51
- V: Of Bounties 21:48:04
- VI: Of Treaties of Commerce 23:31:48
- VII: Of Colonies 24:02:49
- VIII: Conclusion of the Mercantile System 27:55:30
- IX: Of the Agricultural Systems, or of Those Systems of Political Œconomy, Which Represent the Produce of Land as Either the Sole or the Principal Source of the Revenue and Wealth of Every Country 28:50:52
- Book V 30:02:12
- I: Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 30:02:18
- II: Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 35:33:42
- III: Of Public Debts 39:44:50
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The Wealth of Nations is economist Adam Smith’s magnum opus and the foundational text of what today we call classical economics. Its publication ushered in a new era of thinking and discussion about how economies function, a sea change away from the older, increasingly irrelevant mercantilist and physiocratic views of economics towards a new practical application of economics for the birth of the industrial era. Its scope is vast, touching on concepts like free markets, supply and demand, division of labor, war, and public debt. Its fundamental message is that the wealth of a nation is measured not by the gold in the monarch’s treasury, but by its national income, which in turn is produced by labor, land, and capital.
Some ten years in the writing, The Wealth of Nations is the product of almost two decades of notes, study, and discussion. It was released to glowing praise, selling out its first print run in just six months and going through five subsequent editions and countless reprintings in Smith’s lifetime. It began inspiring legislators almost immediately and continued to do so well into the 1800s, and influenced thinkers ranging from Alexander Hamilton to Karl Marx.
Today, it is the second-most-cited book in the social sciences that was published before 1950, and its legacy as a foundational text places it in the stratosphere of civilization-changing books like Principia Mathematica and The Origin of Species.