Adam Smith Today: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsR.R. Smith, 1948 - 480 pages |
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Adam Smith advantage agriculture altogether annual produce balance of trade banks borrowing bounty Britain carried CHAPTER cheaper circulating capital coin colonies commerce commodities commonly competition consumer consumption cost cultivation debt demand duties economic economists employed employers employment England equal Europe exchange exchangeable value expense export fall farmer foreign trade frequently gold and silver grain greater important improvement income increase industry interest joint stock company kind landlord less maintain manufactures ment Mercantile System merchants metals money price monopoly natural price necessarily necessary never obliged paid particular payment perhaps person principal productive labor profits of capital proportion prosperity purchase quantity of labor raise rate of profit real price reason reduce regulations rent of land revenue rich Scotland seems seigniorage sell society sometimes subsistence supply surplus Thorold Rogers tion town wage-fund wages of labor Wealth of Nations whole workmen