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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface to the Sixth Edition; Preface to the Fifth Edition; Introduction; BOOK I . OF THE PRODUCTION OF WEALTH; CHAP. I . Of what is to be understood by the term production; II . Of the different kinds of industry, and the mode in which they concur in production; III . Of the nature of capital, and the mode in which it concurs in the business of production; IV . Of natural agents, that assist in the production of wealth, and specially of land |
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V . On the mode in which industry, capital, and natural agents unite in productionVI . Of operations alike common to all branches of industry .'; VII . Of the labour of mankind, of nature, and of machinery respectively; VIII . Of the advantages and disadvantages resulting from division of labour; and of the extent to which it may be carried; IX . Of the different methods of employing commercial industry, and the mode in which they concur in production; X . Of the transformations undergone by capital, in the progress of production; XL Of the formation and multiplication of capital |
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XII . Of unproductive capitalXIII . Of immaterial products, or values consumed at the moment of production; XIV . Of the right of property; XV . Of the demand or market for products; XVI . Of the benefits resulting from the quick circulation of money and commodities; XVII . Of the effect of governments, intended to influence production; Sect 1. Effect of regulations prescribing the nature of products; Digression-Upon what is called the balance of trade; 2. Of the effect of regulations, fixing the manner of production; 3. Of privileged trading companies |
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4. Of regulations affecung the corn tradeXVIII . Of the effect upon national wealth, resulting from the productive efforts of pub lic authority; XIX . Of colonies and their products; XX . Of temporary and permanent emigration, considered in reference to national wealth; XXI . Of the nature and uses of money:; Sect 1. General remarks; 2. Of the material of money; 3. Of the accession of value a commodity receives, by being vested with the character of money; 4. Of the utility of coinage; and of the charge of its execution; 5. Of alterations of the standard-money |
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6. Of the reason why money is neither a sign nor a measure7. Of a peculiarity, that should be attended to, in estimating the sums mentioned in history; 8. Of the absence of any fixed ratio of value between one metal and another; 9. Of money as it ought to be; 10. Of a copper and brass metal coinage; 11. Of the preferable form of coined money; 12. Of the party on whom the loss of coin by wear should properly fall; XXII . Of signs or representatives of money:; Sect 1. Of bills of exchange and letters of credit; 2. Of banks of deposite |
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Originally published in 1863 by Grigg & Elliot |
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Economics.
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Economics
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economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Economics
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Electronic book
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Quddus, Munir, writer of introduction.
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Rashid, Salim, 1949- writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9781351315661 |
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1351315668 |
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9781351315685 |
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1351315684 |
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