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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: In Three Volumes, Volume 1

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Strahan, 1784

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OF	1

Of the real and nominal Price of Commodities	43

Of the component Parts of the Price of Com	70

CHAP VII	82

CHAP VIII	96

CHA P IX	133

Of Wages and Profit in the different Employ	151

PART 2d Inequalities occafioned by the Policy	183

Second Period	299

Variations in the Proportion between the	330

Grounds of the Sufpicion that the Value	338

First Sort Page	340

Third Sort	359

Conclufion of the Digreffion concerning the	375

Effects of the Progrefs of Improvement upon	384

Conclufion of the Chapter	392

Of the Rent of Land Page	223

PART 2d Of the Produce of Land which	252

PART 3d Of the Variations in the Propor	273

BOOK II	407

CHA P II	423

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Title	An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: In Three Volumes, Volume 1 An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: In Three Volumes, Adam Smith
Author	Adam Smith
Publisher	Strahan, 1784
Original from	the Bavarian State Library
Digitized	12 Jul 2012

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