the wealth of nations summary

... totheir natural rates, the wages of the labour, the profits of the stock, andthe rent of the land, which must be paid in order to bring it from the mineto the market In the greater part of the ... either, first, from the increased abundance of themines which supply it; or, secondly, from the increased wealth of thepeople, from the increased produce of their annual labour The first ofthese ... from the coast of France too, as long as the French East India Com-pany was in prosperity The consumption of the porcelain of China, of thespiceries of the Moluccas, of the piece goods of Bengal,

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... among the different inhabitants of the country, either as the wages of their labour, the profits of their stock, or the rent of theirland But though the whole value of the annual produce of the ... parts, of which one pays the wages of the labour, another the profits of the stock, and a third the rent of theland which had been employed in producing and bringing them to market: that there ... commodities of which the price is made up oftwo of those parts only, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock: and a very few in which it consists altogether in one, the wages of labour: butthat the

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... either of their distance from the principal seat ofgovernment, of the natural strength of the country itself, or of some otherreason, the sovereign came to lose the whole of his authority, the ... and the means oftheir subsistence The quantity of the finished work which they sell to theinhabitants of the country necessarily regulates the quantity of the ma-terials and provisions which they ... therefore, which lies in the neighbourhood of the town, over and abovethe ordinary profits of agriculture, gain, in the price of what they sell, thewhole value of the carriage of the like produce that

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... understand not the increase of the quantity of 1051 [ 3 ] gold and silver, but that of the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, or the increase of the annual ... value. The price of the receipt, and the price of the bank money, compound or make up between them the full value or price of the bullion. Upon deposits of the coin current in the country, the bank ... one case of an hundred thousand pounds, in the other of a million, to the inhabitants of the other. If their trade should be of such a nature that one of them exported to 1053 [ 5 ] the other nothing

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... produce. The more, therefore, they pay for the one, the less they really get for the other, and the dearness of the one is the same thing with the cheapness of the other. The policy of Portugal ... commodities of the first kind could not discourage the growth or interfere with the sale of 448 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith any part of the produce of the mother country. By confining them to the ... towards the defence of the mother country, or towards the support of its civil government. They themselves, on the contrary, have hitherto been defended almost entirely at the expense of the mother

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... Unless, therefore, they annually save some part of them, unlessthey annually deprive themselves of the enjoyment of some part of them,the revenue and wealth of their society can never be in the smallest ... both the wages of all theworkmen of the unproductive class, and of the profits of all their employers Those workmen and their employers are properly the servants of the prietors and cultivators They ... lands of their own, yet draw to themselves by their industrysuch a quantity of the rude produce of the lands of other people as suppliesthem, not only with the materials of their work, but with the

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... degeneracy of the great body of the people In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far 1686 [ 50 ] greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of thepeople, ... benefices of the church, by procuring to thedeans and chapters of each diocese the restoration of their ancient right ofelecting the bishop, and to the monks of each abbacy that of electing theabbot The ... tures, the wealth of the clergy gave them the same sort of influence overthe common people which that of the great barons gave them over their re-spective vassals, tenants, and retainers In the

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... year The officers of the king’s court,the judges and other officers in the superior courts of justice, the officers of the troops, etc., are assessed in the first manner The inferior ranks ofpeople ... taxes.When the diminution of revenue is the effect of the diminution of sumption there can be but one remedy, and that is the lowering of the tax When the diminution of the revenue is the diminution of ... a minor, the whole rents of the estate during the continuanceof the minority devolved to the superior without any other charge besidesthe maintenance of the minor, and the payment of the widow’s

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... than the story of the currency of its title; it unravels and makes sense of the complex tangle of events and policies that have marked the parlous evolution of the global monetary system since the ... other machinery in the economy’ In modern idiom we would say that ‘most of the time the software of money does not matter but when it mutates it spreads a virus which attacks all the other software ... accompanied the launch of the euro The ‘Paris and Brussels’ view by contrast traces the crisis to a failure of the founding Treaty to provide for a fiscal, debt and banking union The leading hypothesis

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... Smith, The Theory of MoralSentiments in 1759 (hereafter Sentiments in the text, and TMS in citations)and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776(hereafter Wealth in the ... that on the points at which they come into contact there isa substantial measure of irreconcilable divergence between the Theory ofMoral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations with respect to the character ... Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,Shonibare suggests that the rationality of classical economics is subject tothe frailties of being human Shonibare also uses the physical

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... Smith, The Theory of MoralSentiments in 1759 (hereafter Sentiments in the text, and TMS in citations)and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776(hereafter Wealth in the ... that on the points at which they come into contact there isa substantial measure of irreconcilable divergence between the Theory ofMoral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations with respect to the character ... Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,Shonibare suggests that the rationality of classical economics is subject tothe frailties of being human Shonibare also uses the physical

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... Smith, The Theory of MoralSentiments in 1759 (hereafter Sentiments in the text, and TMS in citations)and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776(hereafter Wealth in the ... that on the points at which they come into contact there isa substantial measure of irreconcilable divergence between the Theory ofMoral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations with respect to the character ... Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,Shonibare suggests that the rationality of classical economics is subject tothe frailties of being human Shonibare also uses the physical

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... 1Chapter 24 Measuring the Wealth of Nations What will you learn in this chapter? GDP. GDP. and the real GDP annual growth rate. Valuing an economy • Macroeconomics is the study of the economy on a ... Gross domestic product (GDP) is the sum of the market values of all final goods and services produced in a country within a given period of time the value of a national economy Trang 2© ... the national income accounting that resolves both of these issues. Unpacking the definition of GDP market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of

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... 4This is the fifth book of the "Wealth of the People" series The series is an inquiry about the requirements for the production of wealth in a society The fifth book is about the function ... Separation of Powers Limited Powers to Make War Limitation to Enter the Market A Referendum Process An Initiative Process The Mission of the State Other Functions of the State The Vision of the State ... read the first four books If you have not read them, please go to Smashwords.com and read them in order The complete list of the "Wealth of the People" titles can be found at the end of

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... history is the story ofthe self-evolving ofthe human species through the work ofthe human mind The evolving ofthe human species is a by-product ofthe self-ordering ofhuman beings, within the private ... practical theory Behind pure theory lies what we may call transcendental theory, a theory oftheory, our way ofexplaining to ourselves the nature ofexplanation,the nature ofideas, the nature ofthe mind ... provide the groundwork ofthe possible practical theory ofthe new international society, that is, the practical theory ofthe social self-constituting ofhumanity at the level which lies beyond the

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... which the ideas and the practices and theproducts ofscience may be put must be determined by other means,through the activity ofother systems within the human mind And theabuse ofthe fruits ofscience ... self-consciousness in theface ofthe terrible events ofthe twentieth century and the rise oftheoverwhelming forces of mass-consciousness im-(5) The universities, the realm devoted to the study ofboth ends ... alsoincludes the perceptions ofother lawyers.2.19 This relativity ofthe law means, on the one hand, that the isting field oflegal forces provides the possibilities oflaw It means, onthe other hand,

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... VI. Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities 73 Chapter VII. Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities 83 Chapter VIII. Of the Wages of Labour 96 Chapter IX. Of the Profits of ... or Commonwealth 921 Chapter I. Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 922 PART 1 922 Of the Expense of Defence 922 PART 2 946 Of the Expense of Justice 946 PART 3 963 Of the Expense of Public ... Systems, or of those Systems of Political Economy which represent the Produce of Land as either the sole or the principal Source of the Revenue and Wealth every Country 880 The Wealth of Nations: ...

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... facilitate comparisons. What the Data Reveal H aving explained the methods and caveats in the estimation of wealth, the remainder of the chapter is devoted to an overview of the wealth estimates. Subsequent ... assesses the wealth of the planet in the year 2000. In speaking of wealth we are returning to the ideas of the classical economists, who viewed land, labor, and produced capital as the primary ... Organization of the United Nations (FAO) fi gures show that the roughly 90 million tons of captured fi sh have a landed value of $78 billion annually. The export value of the total world trade of fi...

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... for the assist- AN INQUIRY INTO THE Nature and Causes OF THE WEALTH OF NA TIONS BOOK V Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 535 CHAPTER I Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth ... Third. Of the Expense of Supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign 629 Conclusion of the chapter 630 CHAPTER II Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 632 Part Third. Of the ... manufactures, from the growers of the flax and the wool, to the bleach- ers and smoothers of the linen, or to the dyers and dressers of the cloth! The nature of agriculture, indeed, does not admit of so many...

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... great 76 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith to the real profits of so great a stock. The apparent profits of the wealthy retailer, therefore, are there more nearly upon a level with those of the wholesale ... extremely fluctuating. But the profit of some of the dealers must necessarily fluctu- ate with the price of the commodities. The operations of the speculative 95 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith in ... of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. The rents of the one and the profits of the other depend very much upon the price of provisions. Nothing can be more 69 The Wealth...

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