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Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations (abridged)

Read by Sean Barrett

This release includes a digital booklet

Contents

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations

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Introduction and Plan of the Work

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BOOK 1: Of the causes of Improvement…

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The corn of the rich country…

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All the improvements in machinery…

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Chapter 2: Of the principal which Gives Occasion…

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As it is by treaty…

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Chapter 3: That the Division of Labour…

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The nations that, according to the best…

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Chapter 4: Of the origin and use of money

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The use of metals in this rude state…

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During the first race…

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Chapter 5: Of the Real and Nominal Price…

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Gold and silver, however…

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Equal quantities of labour…

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Chapter 6: Of the Component Part…

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As soon as the land of any country…

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Whoever derives his revenue…

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Chapter 7: Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities

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If, on the contrary…

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Secrets in manufactures…

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Chapter 8: Of the Wages of Labour

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We rarely hear, it has been said…

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Though the wealth of a country…

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The liberal reward of labour…

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Grain, the food of the common people…

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BOOK 2: Of the Nature, Accumulation…

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Chapter 1: Of the Division of Stock

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The first is that portion…

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Of these four parts…

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Chapter 2: Of Money, considered as a Particular Branch…

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The expense of maintaining the fixed capital

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Thus, if a guinea be the weekly pension…

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Chapter 3: Of the Accumulation of Capital…

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That part of the annual produce…

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In the opulent countries of Europe…

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There was little trade or industry in Edinburgh…

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Though the expense of the prodigal…

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It can seldom happen…

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Chapter 5: Of the Different Employments…

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Part of the capital of the master…

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BOOK 3: Of the Different Progress…

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Without the assistance of some artificers…

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Chapter 3: Of the Rise and Progress…

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Nor was this all.

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In countries such as France…

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Sometimes they have been introduced…

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Chapter 4: How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed

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It is a mistake to imagine…

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The personal expense of the great proprietor

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Compare the slow progress…

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These encouragements…

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BOOK 4: Of Systems of Political Economy

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Such as they were…

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The discovery of a passage…

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Chapter 2: Of Restraints Upon the Importation…

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Secondly, every individual…

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The second case, in which it will generally…

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Chapter 3: Of the Extraordinary Restraints…

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If it was not with tobacco…

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By such maxims as these, however…

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But the very same circumstances…

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Chapter 7: Of Colonies

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England, it must be observed…

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To found a great empire…

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In order to render any province advantageous

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Chapter 9: Of the Agricultural Systems…

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The sovereigns of China…

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The greatest and most important branch…

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