Principles of Political Economy (Ashley edition)

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1. Introduction
2. Preface [1848]
3. [Addition to the Preface in the Second Edition, 1849]
4. Preface to the Third Edition [July, 1852]
5. [Addition to the Preface in the Sixth, Edition, 1865]
6. [Addition to the Preface in “The People's Edition,” 1865]
7. Preface to the Seventh Edition [1871]∗
8. PRELIMINARY REMARKS
9. CHAPTER I: of the requisites of production
10. CHAPTER II: of labour as an agent of production
11. CHAPTER III: of unproductive labour
12. CHAPTER IV: of capital
13. CHAPTER V: fundamental propositions respecting capital
14. CHAPTER VI: on circulating and fixed capital
15. CHAPTER VII: on what depends the degree of productiveness of productive agents
16. CHAPTER VIII: of co-operation, or the combination of labour
17. CHAPTER IX: of production on a large, and production on a small scale
18. CHAPTER X: of the law of the increase of labour
19. CHAPTER XI: of the law of the increase of capital
20. CHAPTER XII: of the law of the increase of production from land
21. CHAPTER XIII: consequences of the foregoing laws
22. CHAPTER I.: of property
23. CHAPTER II.: the same subject continued
24. Chapter III.: Of the classes among whom the produce is distributed
25. CHAPTER IV.: of competition and custom
26. CHAPTER V.: of slavery
27. CHAPTER VI.: of peasant proprietors
28. CHAPTER VII.: continuation of the same subject
29. CHAPTER VIII.: of Metayers
30. CHAPTER IX.: of Cottiers
31. CHAPTER X.: means of abolishing cottier tenancy
32. CHAPTER XI.: of Wages
33. CHAPTER XII.: of Popular Remedies for Low Wages
34. CHAPTER XIII.: the remedies for low wages further considered
35. CHAPTER XIV.: of the differences of wages in different employments
36. CHAPTER XV.: of Profits
37. CHAPTER XVI.: of Rent
38. CHAPTER I: OF VALUE
39. CHAPTER II: of demand and supply in their relation to value
40. CHAPTER III: of cost of production, in its relation to value
41. CHAPTER IV: ultimate analysis of cost of production
42. CHAPTER V: of rent, in its relation to value
43. CHAPTER VI: summary of the theory of value
44. CHAPTER VII: of money
45. CHAPTER VIII: of the value of money, as dependent on demand and supply
46. CHAPTER IX: of the value of money, as dependent on cost of production
47. CHAPTER X: of a double standard, and subsidiary coins
48. CHAPTER XI: of credit, as a substitute for money
49. CHAPTER XII: influence of credit on prices
50. CHAPTER XIII: of an inconvertible paper currency
51. CHAPTER XIV: of excess of supply
52. CHAPTER XV: of a measure of value
53. CHAPTER XVI: of some peculiar cases of value
54. CHAPTER XVII.: on international trade
55. CHAPTER XVIII: of international values
56. CHAPTER XIX: of money, considered as an imported commodity
57. CHAPTER XX: of the foreign exchanges
58. CHAPTER XXI: of the distribution of the precious metals through the commercial world
59. CHAPTER XXII: influence of the currency on the exchanges and on foreign trade
60. CHAPTER XXIII: of the rate of interest

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