An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations · Adam Smith
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_Dairy_, the business of, generally carried on as a save-all, 96. Circumstances which impede or promote the attention to it, ib. English and Scotch dairies, ib. _Danube_, the navigation of that river, why of little use to the interior parts of the country from whence it flows, 9. _Davenant_, Dr. his objections to the transferring the duties on beer to the malt considered, 377. _Dearths_, never caused by combinations among the dealers in corn, but by some general calamity, 214. The free exercise of the corn trade the best palliative against the inconveniencies of a dearth, 217. Corn dealers the best friends to the people at such seasons, 218. _Debts_, public, the origin of, traced, 386. Are accelerated by the expenses attending war, ib. Account of the unfunded debt of Great Britain, 387. The funded debt, 388. Aggregate and general funds, 389. Sinking fund, ib. Annuities for terms of years and for lives, ib. The reduction of, during peace, bears no proportion to its accumulation during war, 391. The plea of the interest being no burden to the nation considered, 394. Are seldom fairly paid when accumulated to a certain degree, 396. Might easily be discharged, by extending the British system of taxation over all the provinces of the empire, 397. Ireland and America ought to contribute to discharge the public debts of Britain, 402.
_Decker_, Sir Matthew, his observations on the accumulation of taxes, 369. His proposal for transferring all taxes to the consumer, by annual payments, considered, 371. _Demand_, though the increase of, may at first raise the price of goods, it never fails to reduce it afterwards, 314. _Denmark_, account of the settlements of, in the West Indies, 234. _Diamonds_, the mines of, not always worth working for, 73. _Discipline_, the great importance of, in war, 293. Instances of, ib. _Diversions_, public, their political use, 334. _Domingo_, St. mistaken by Columbus for a part of the East Indies, 229. Its principal productions, ib. The natives soon stripped of all their gold, 230. Historical view of the French colony there, 234. _Doomsday-book_, the intention of that compilation, 351. _Dorians_, ancient, where the colonies of, settled, 227. _Dramatic exhibitions_, the political use of, 334. _Drawbacks_, in commerce, explained, 182. The motives to, and tendency of, explained, 203. On wines, currants, and wrought silks, ib. On tobacco and sugar, 204. On wines, particularly considered, ib. Were originally granted to encourage the carrying trade, 205. The revenue of the customs increased by them, ib. Drawbacks allowed in favour of the colonies, 213. _Drugs_, regulations of their importation and exportation, 272. _Drunkenness_, the motive to this vice inquired into, 200. _Dutch_, their settlements in America slow in in improvement, because under the government of an exclusive company, 234. Their East India trade checked by monopoly, 261. Measures taken by, to secure the monopoly of the spice trade. See _Holland_.
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