AN

INQUIRY

INTO THE

NATURE AND CAUSES

OF THE

WEALTH OF NATIONS.

By ADAM SMITH, L.L. D. F.R.S.

WITB

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

ALSO,

A VIEW OF TRE DOCTRINE OF SMITH, COMPARED WITH THAT OP TRE
FRENCH ECOXOMISTS ; WITH A METHOD OP FACILITATING TBE

STUDY OF HIS WORKS; PROM THE FRENCH OF M. GARNIER.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON :

PRINTED FOR J. MAYNARD, PANTON STREET, HAT-

MARKET; AND F. ZINKE, 148, STRAND.

CONTENTS

OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

BOOK II.

OF THE NATURE, ACCUMULATION, AND EM-

PLOYMENT OF STOCK.

Of Money considered as a particular Branch of the

general Stock of the Society, or of the Expence of

maintaining the National Capital .

15

CHAP. III.

Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of productive

and unproductive Labour

83

Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the an-

cient State of Europe, after the Fall of the Roman

Empire

153

CHAP. III.

of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, after

the Fall of the Roman Empire

109

.

CHAP. IV.

How the Commerce of the Towns contributed to

the Improvement of the Country

185

Of the Principle of the Commercial, or Mercantile

System

205