An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith ; with an introduction and notes by Jonathan B. Wight.

Includes index.

Spine title: Wealth of nations.

Foreword by George Osborne, MP -- Editor's Introduction by Johnathan B.Wight, University of Richmond -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction and Plan of the Work -- Notable Quotes from The Wealth of Nations -- Contents to The Wealth of Nations -- Book I 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 different Ranks of the people. -- CHAPTER I Of the Division of Labour -- CHAPTER II Of the Principle which goves Occasion to the Division of Labour -- CHAPTER III That the Division of labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market -- CHAPTER IV Of the Origin and Use of Money -- CHAPTER V Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or of their Price in Labour, and their Price in Money -- CHAPTER VI Of the Component parts of the Price of Commodities -- CHAPTER VII Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities -- CHAPTER VIII Of the Wages of Labour -- CHAPTER IX Of the Profits of Stock -- CHAPTER X Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock -- PART I. Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments themselves -- PART II Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe -- CHAPTER XI Of the Rent of Land -- PART I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent -- PART II. Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and sometimes does not, afford Rent -- 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 Digression concerning the Variations in the value of Silver during the Course of the Four last Centuries -- FIRST PERIOD SECOND PERIOD THIRD PERIOD Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of Gold and Silver Grounds of the suspicion that the Value of Silver still continues to decrease Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon three different sorts of rude Produce First Sort Second sort Third Sort Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price of Manufactures -- CONCLUSION of the CHAPTER PRICES OF WHEAT -- Book II Of the Nature, Accululation, and Employment of Stock -- CHAPTER I Of the Division of Stock -- CHAPTER II Of Money, Considered as a Particular Branch of theGeneral Stock of the Society, or of the Expense of Maintaining the National Capital -- CHAPTER III Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour -- CHAPTER IV Of Stock Lent at Interest -- CHAPTER V Of the Different Employment of Capitals -- Book III Of the Different Progress of Opulence in Different Nations -- CHAPTER I Of the Natural Progress of Opulence -- CHAPTER II Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the Ancient State of Europe, after the Fall of the Roman Empire -- CHAPTER III Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, after the Fall of the Roman Empire.