An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations · Adam Smith
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_Wages_ of labour, how settled between masters and workmen, 27. The workmen generally obliged to comply with the terms of their employers, ib. The opposition of workmen outrageous, and seldom successful, 28. Circumstances which operate to raise wages, ib. The extent of wages limited by the funds from which they arise, ib. Why higher in North America than in England, ib. Are low in countries that are stationary, ib. Not oppressively low in Great Britain, 30. A distinction made here between the wages in summer and in winter, 31. If sufficient in dear years, they must be ample in seasons of plenty, ib. Different rates of, in different places, ib. Liberal wages encourage industry and propagation, 33. An advance of, necessarily raises the price of many commodities, 36. An average of, not easily ascertained, 37. The operation of high wages and high profits compared, 41. Causes of the variations of, in different employments, ib. Are generally higher in new, than in old trades, 48, 57. Legal regulations of, destroy industry and ingenuity, 59, 60. Natural effect of a direct tax upon, 365. _Walpole_, Sir Robert, his excise scheme defended, 375. _Wants_ of mankind, how supplied through the operation of labour, 9, 10. How extended, in proportion to their supply, 69. The far greater part of them supplied from the produce of other men's labour, 111.
_Wars_, foreign, the funds for the maintenance of, in the present century, have little dependence on the quantity of gold and silver in a nation, 178, 179. How supported by a nation of hunters, 289. By a nation of shepherds, ib. By a nation of husbandmen, 290. Men of military age, what proportion they bear to the whole society, ib. Feudal wars, how supported, ib. Causes which, in the advanced state of society, rendered it impossible for those who took the field, to maintain themselves, ib. How the art of war became a distinct profession, 291. Distinction between the militia and regular forces, 292. Alteration in the art of war produced by the invention of fire-arms, ib., 296. Importance of discipline, 293. Macedonian army, 294. Carthaginian army, ib. Roman army, ib. Feudal armies, 295. A well regulated standing army, the only defence of a civilized country, and the only means for speedily civilizing a barbarous country, 296. The want of parsimony during peace, imposes on states the necessity of contracting debts to carry on war, 386, 391. Why war is agreeable to those who live secure from the immediate calamities of it, 391. Advantages of raising the supplies for, within the year, 394. _Watch_ movements, great reduction in the prices of, owing to mechanical improvements, 103. _Wealth_ and money, synonymous terms, in popular language, 173, 182. Spanish and Tartarian estimate of, compared, 173. The great authority conferred by the possession of, 298.
_Weavers_, the profits of, why necessarily greater than those of spinners, 21. _West Indies_, discovered by Columbus, 229. How they obtained this name, ib. The original native productions of, ib. The thirst of gold the object of all the Spanish enterprises there, 230. And of those of every other European nation, 231. The remoteness of, greatly in favour of the European colonies there, 232. The sugar colonies of France better governed than those of Britain, 241. _Wheat_. See _Corn_. _Window-tax_ in Britain, how rated, 357. Tends to reduce house rent, ib. _Windsor_ market, chronological table of the prices of corn at, 109. _Wine_, the cheapness of, would be a cause of sobriety, 200. The carrying trade in, encouraged by English statutes, 204. _Wood_, the price of, rises in proportion as a country is cultivated, 70. The growth of young trees prevented by cattle, ib. When the planting of trees becomes a profitable employment, ib. _Wool_, the produce of rude countries, commonly carried to a distant market, 97. The price of, in England, has fallen considerably since the time of Edward III., ib. Causes of this diminution in price, 98. The price of, considerably reduced in Scotland, by the Union with England, 99. Severity of the laws against the exportation of, 268. Restraints upon the inland commerce of, 269. Restraints upon the coasting trade of, ib. Pleas on which these restraints are founded, ib. The price of wool depressed by these regulations, 270. The exportation of, ought to be allowed, subject to a duty, 271. _Woollen_ cloth, the present prices of, compared with those at the close of the fifteenth century, 104. Three mechanical improvements introduced in the manufacture of, ib., 105. _Edinburgh_:--_DUNCAN STEVENSON_, Printer to the University.
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