An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections, Volume 1

Adam Smith advantage afford agriculture altogether America ancient ancient Egypt annual produce artificers and manufacturers Britain capital cattle Chapter colonies commerce commodities commonly consequently consumption corn cultivation debt declension diminish division of labor duties effect effectual demand employed employment endeavor England equal Europe exchange exchangeable value expense exportation factures farmer foreign France frequently gold and silver home market importation improvement increase industry inhabitants interest justice land and labor landlord less maintaining maintenance manner manu master ment mercantilist merchants natural price necessarily necessary occasion opulence ordinary particular perhaps Physiocrats Portugal pound pound sterling pound weight present price of labor productive labor profits of stock prohibited proportion proprietors provinces purchase quantity of labor raise regulated revenue rich rude produce Scotland seems seldom servants society sometimes sort sovereign subsistence sufficient surplus produce taxes tion town trade unproductive wages of labor Wealth of Nations whole workmen