AN

INQUIRY

IXTO THE

NATURE AND CAUSES

OF THE

WEALTH OF NATIONS.

BY ADAM SMITH, LL.D. F.R.S.

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

ALSO,

A VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF SMITH,
COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE FRENCH ECONOMISTS; WITH A METHOD
OF FACILITATING THE STUDY OF HIS WORKS; FROM

THL PRENCH OP M. GARXIER,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR STIRLING AND SLADE, ADAM BLACK, AND FAIR-

BAIRN AND ANDERSON, EDINBURGH; LACKINGTON AND CO.
J. CUTHELL, R. PRIESTLY, R. SCHOLEY, G, COWIE AND co. T.
AND J. ALLMAN, G, MACKIE, AND J. BUMPUS, LONDON.

1819.

GIFT

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1919

1.2

CONTENTS

OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

BOOK II.

OF THE NATURE, ACCUMULATION, AND EMPLOYMENT.

OF STOCK.

Of Money considered as a particular Branch of the

general Slock of the Society, or of the Expense of

maintaining the National Capital

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CHAP. III.

Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of productive and

unproductive Labour

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