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CONTENTS

VOLUME TWO

BOOK II— CONTINUED

Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock

Chap. III.

Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of productive and unproductive Labor

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7

IV.

Of Stock lent at Interest

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34

V.

Of the different Employment of Capitals

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46

BOOK III
Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations

Chap. I.

Of the natural Progress of Opulence

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68

II.

Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire

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75

III.

Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, after the Fall of the Roman Empire

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91

IV.

How the Commerce of the Towns contributed to the Improvement of the Country

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106

BOOK IV
Of Systems of Political Economy

Introduction

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124

Chap. I.

Of the Principle of the Commercial, or Mercantile System

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124

II.

Of Restraints upon the Importation from foreign Countries of such Goods as can be produced at Home

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156

III.

Of the extraordinary Restraints upon the Importation of Goods of almost all Kinds, from those Countries with which the Balance is supposed to be disadvantageous

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184

Part I. Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints even upon the Principles of the Commercial System

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184

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