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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...1 10 0 1690 1 14 8 1691 1 14 0 1692 2 6 8 1693 3 7 8 1694 3 4 0 1695 2 13 0 1696 3 11 0 1697 3 0 0 1698 3 8 ... ...t of parliament, by a charter under the great seal, dated the 27th of July 1694. It at that time advanced to government the sum of £1,200,000 for an a... ...words, accordingly, which in the original languages denote those different establishments, have very different meanings. The Latin word (colonia) sign... ...irst discovery of the West. A project of conquest gave occasion to all the establishments of the Spaniards in those newly discovered countries. The mo... ...ome settlements in the new world. The Swedes established themselves in New Jersey; and the num- ber of Swedish families still to be found there suffic...

...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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