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Chapters

1. Preface433 words
2. Introduction The Subject—Its Limits—and Division524 words
3. Chapter I: PRODUCTION331 words
4. Section I. Labour1,581 words
5. Section II. Capital1,992 words
6. Chapter II: DISTRIBUTION163 words
7. Section I. Rent2,591 words
8. Section II. Wages337 words
9. 1. That the rate of wages depends on the proportion between Population, and Employment, in other words, Capital.996 words
10. 2. Proof of the tendency of Population to increase rapidly.1,030 words
11. 3. Proof that capital has a less tendency than Population to increase rapidly.1,399 words
12. 4. That forcible means employed to make capital increase faster than its natural tendency would not produce desirable effects.2,361 words
13. Section III. Profits4,356 words
14. Section I. Nature of the Advantage Derived from the Interchange of Commodities, and the Principal Agents Employed in it.393 words
15. Section II. What Determines the Quantity in Which Commodities Exchange for One Another3,426 words
16. Section III. Effect Upon Exchangeable Values of a Fluctuation in Wages and Profits.2,938 words
17. Section IV. Occasions on Which it is the Interest of Nations to Exchange Commodities with One Another1,454 words
18. Section V. The Commodities Imported are the Cause of the Benefits Derived from a Foreign Trade497 words
19. Section VI. Convenience of a Particular Commodity, as a Medium of Exchange522 words
20. Section VII. What Regulates the Value of Money965 words
21. Section VIII. What Regulates the Quantity of Money1,074 words
22. Section IX. The Effect of Employing Two Metals Both as Standard Money, and of Using Subsidiary Coins, at Less Than the Metallic Value.863 words
23. Section X. Substitutes for Money852 words
24. Section XI. Advantages Derived from the Use of Paper Money423 words
25. Section XII. Inconveniences to which the Use of Paper Money is Liable4,262 words
26. Section XIII. The Value of the Precious Metals in Each Country Determines Whether It Shall Export or Import438 words
27. Section XIV. The Value of the Precious Metal, or Medium of Exchange, Which Determines Exportation, Is Not the Same in All Countries671 words
28. Section XV. Mode in which the Precious Metal, or Medium of Exchange, Distributes Itself Among the Nations of the Globe1,047 words
29. Section XVI. Money Transactions between Nations—Bills of Exchange3,645 words
30. Section XVII. Bounties and Prohibitions2,380 words
31. Section XVIII. Colonies2,077 words
32. Chapter IV: CONSUMPTION94 words
33. Section I. Of Productive and Unproductive Consumption1,158 words
34. Section II. That Which Is Annually Produced Is Annually Consumed424 words
35. Section III. That Consumption Is Co-extensive with Production4,226 words
36. Section IV. In What Manner Government Consumes309 words
37. Section V. Taxes on Rent1,806 words
38. Section VI. A Tax on Profits244 words
39. Section VII. A Tax on Wages2,096 words
40. Section VIII. Direct Taxes Which Are Destined to Fall Equally Upon All Sources of Income1,912 words
41. Section IX. Taxes on Commodities; either Some Particular Commodities; or All Commodities Equally1,203 words
42. Section X. A Tax Upon the Produce of the Land390 words
43. Section XI. A Tax Upon the Profits of the Farmer, and Upon Agricultural Instruments407 words
44. Section XII. Tithes and Poor Rates333 words
45. Section XIII. A Tax per Acre on the Land845 words
46. Section XIV. Taxes Upon the Transfer of Property148 words
47. Section XV. Law Taxes185 words
48. Section XVI. Taxes on Money, and the Precious Metals1,103 words
49. Section XVII. Effects of the Taxation of Commodities Upon the Value of Money, and the Employment of Capital965 words
50. About Liberty Fund328 words
51. The Online Library of Liberty235 words
52. Copyright Information531 words