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The Reading Room
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
22 chapters · about 381,000 words
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BOOK V. OF THE REVENUE OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH
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BOOK I.
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PART I. Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments
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PART II.—Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe.
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PART I.—Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent.
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PART II.—Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and sometimes
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PART III.—Of the variations in the Proportion between the respective
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
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BOOK IV.
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Part I—Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the
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PART II.—Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints,
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PART I. Of the Motives for Establishing New Colonies.
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PART II. Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies.
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PART III. Of the Advantages which Europe has derived From the Discovery of
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PART I. Of the Expense of Defence.
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PART II. Of the Expense of Justice
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PART III. Of the Expense of public Works and public Institutions.
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part in the quarrel. When the parish happened to be situated in a great
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PART IV. Of the Expense of supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign.
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PART I. Of the Funds, or Sources, of Revenue, which may peculiarly belong
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PART II. Of Taxes.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — read in full — Paul Maxwell