Selections from the Wealth of Nations

• Autore: Smith Adam
• Pubblicazione: Somerset : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 1957; ©1957
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (132 pages)
• Disciplina: 330.153
• Soggetto topico: Economics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: StiglerGeorge J
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Book I: Of the Causes of Improvment in the Productive Powers of Labor and of the Order According to Which Its Produce is Naturally Distributed Among the Different Ranks of the People. -- Chapter I: Of the Division of Labor -- Chapter II: Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labor -- Chapter III: That the Division of Labor is Limited by the Extent of the Market -- Chapter IV: Of the Origin and Use of Money -- Chapter V: Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities, or of Their Price in Labor and Their Price in Money -- Chapter VI: Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities -- Chapter VII: Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities -- Chapter X: Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labor and Stock -- Part I: Inequalities Arising from the Nature of the Employments Themselves -- Book IV: Of Systems of Political Economy -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System -- Chapter IX: Of the Agriculture Systems, or of Those Systems of Political Economy, Wh ich Represent the Produce of Land, as Either the Sole or the Principal Source of the Revenue and Wealth of Every Country -- Book V: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth -- Chapter I: Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth -- Part I: Of the Expense of Defense -- Part II: Of the Expense of Justice -- Part III: Of the Expense of Public Works and Public Institutions -- Article I: Of the Public Works and Institutions for Facilitating the Commerce of the Society -- And, First, of Those Which Are Necessary for Facilitating Commerce in General -- Article II: Of the Expense of the Institutions for the Education of Youth.
• Sommario/riassunto: This carefully annotated selection features the main analysis of the operation of an economic system, the introductory chapter of the great attack on mercantilism, and portions of the analysis of the functions of the state-Books I, IV, and V. Edited by George J. Stigler, this useful volume includes an introduction and a bibliography.
• Titolo autorizzato: Selections from the Wealth of Nations
• ISBN: 9781118822838; 9780882950938
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795832803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Crofts Classics Ser.