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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith (1723–1790)

73 chapters, about 412,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PART I. Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent 61 200 words
2. CHAP. III. 8,100 words
3. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. GARNIER. 4,600 words
4. PART FIRST.--OF VALUES IN PARTICULAR. 700 words
5. PART SECOND.--OF STOCK AND ITS EMPLOYMENT. 2,100 words
6. INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK. 1,100 words
7. OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR. 3,500 words
8. CHAP. II. 1,600 words
9. CHAP. III. 1,400 words
10. OF THE ORIGIN AND USE OF MONEY. 1,900 words
11. CHAP. V. 6,700 words
12. CHAP. VI. 3,000 words
13. OF THE NATURAL AND MARKET PRICE OF COMMODITIES. 3,700 words
14. OF THE WAGES OF LABOUR. 9,400 words
15. OF THE PROFITS OF STOCK. 4,500 words
16. CHAP. X. 8,200 words
17. PART II.--_Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe._ 10,100 words
18. OF THE RENT OF LAND. 1,000 words
19. PART I.--_Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent._ 44,700 words
20. INTRODUCTION. 900 words
21. OF THE DIVISION OF STOCK. 3,100 words
22. CHAP II. 19,400 words
23. CHAP. III. 8,000 words
24. OF STOCK LENT AT INTEREST. 3,600 words
25. OF THE DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS OF CAPITALS. 6,400 words
26. OF THE NATURAL PROGRESS OF OPULENCE. 2,000 words
27. CHAP. II. 4,700 words
28. CHAP. III. 4,400 words
29. CHAP. IV. 5,300 words
30. INTRODUCTION. 100 words
31. CHAP. I. 9,400 words
32. CHAP. II. 8,300 words
33. CHAP. III. 11,000 words
34. OF DRAWBACKS. 2,100 words
35. OF BOUNTIES. 16,300 words
36. OF TREATIES OF COMMERCE. 400 words
37. ART. II. 200 words
38. ART. III. 4,200 words
39. PART I. 3,700 words
40. PART II. 10,800 words
41. PART III. 22,100 words
42. CONCLUSION OF THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM. 8,400 words
43. CHAP. IX. 10,800 words
44. INDEX. 200 words
45. PART I. 7,200 words
46. PART II. 5,300 words
47. PART III. 37,500 words
48. PART IV. 200 words
49. CONCLUSION. 700 words
50. PART I. 3,300 words
51. PART II. 35,900 words
52. OF PUBLIC DEBTS. 18,000 words
53. FOOTNOTES: 300 words
54. GOLD. 200 words
55. A 1,200 words
56. B 1,500 words
57. C 3,400 words
58. D 500 words
59. E 1,000 words
60. F 1,100 words
61. G 900 words
62. H 500 words
63. I, J 900 words
64. L 1,400 words
65. M 1,700 words
66. N 300 words
67. P 1,500 words
68. R 1,100 words
69. S 1,900 words
70. T 1,400 words
71. V 300 words
72. W 800 words
73. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: 400 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Capital (economics)
• Clergy
• Competition (economics)
• Expert
• Income tax
• Indignation
• Institution
• Isocrates
• Mendicant
• Metal (wuxing)
• North America
• Parish
• Peru
• Price
• Professor
• Profit (economics)
• Rhetoric
• Royal Society
• Scarcity
• School
• Tax
• Wage labour
• Wealth

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