The Works of David Ricardo

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1. ADVERTISEMENT.
2. LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MR RICARDO
3. ADVERTISMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION
4. PREFACE
5. SECTION I
6. SECTION II.
7. SECTION III
8. SECTION IV
9. SECTION V
10. SECTION VI
11. SECTION VII
12. CHAPTER II.: ON RENT.
13. CHAPTER III.: ON THE RENT OF MINES.
14. CHAPTER IV.: ON NATURAL AND MARKET PRICE.
15. CHAPTER V.: ON WAGES.
16. CHAPTER VI.: ON PROFITS.
17. CHAPTER VII.: ON FOREIGN TRADE.
18. CHAPTER VIII.: ON TAXES.
19. CHAPTER IX.: TAXES ON RAW PRODUCE.
20. CHAPTER X.: TAXES ON RENT.
21. CHAPTER XI.: TITHES.
22. CHAPTER XII.: LAND-TAX.
23. CHAPTER XIII.: TAXES ON GOLD.
24. CHAPTER XIV.: TAXES ON HOUSES.
25. CHAPTER XV.: TAXES ON PROFITS.
26. CHAPTER XVI.: TAXES ON WAGES.
27. CHAPTER XVII.: TAXES ON OTHER COMMODITIES THAN RAW PRODUCE.
28. CHAPTER XVIII.: POOR RATES.
29. CHAPTER XIX.: ON SUDDEN CHANGES IN THE CHANNELS OF TRADE.
30. CHAPTER XX.: VALUE AND RICHES, THEIR DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES.
31. CHAPTER XXI.: EFFECTS OF ACCUMULATION ON PROFITS AND INTEREST.
32. CHAPTER XXII.: BOUNTIES ON EXPORTATION, AND PROHIBITIONS OF IMPORTATION.
33. CHAPTER XXIII.: ON BOUNTIES ON PRODUCTIONS.
34. CHAPTER XXIV.: DOCTRINE OF ADAM SMITH CONCERNING THE RENT OF LAND.
35. CHAPTER XXV.: ON COLONIAL TRADE.
36. CHAPTER XXVI.: ON GROSS AND NET REVENUE
37. CHAPTER XXVII.: ON CURRENCY AND BANKS
38. CHAPTER XXVIII.: ON THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF GOLD, CORN, AND LABOUR IN RICH AND POOR COUNTRIES.
39. CHAPTER XXIX.: TAXES PAID BY THE PRODUCER.
40. CHAPTER XXX.: ON THE INFLUENCE OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY ON PRICES.
41. CHAPTER XXXI.: ON MACHINERY
42. CHAPTER XXXII.: MR MALTHUS'S OPINIONS ON RENT.
43. HIGH PRICE OF BULLION.
44. APPENDIX.
45. CHAPTER I.: PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS—MR BOSANQUET'S OBJECTIONS TO THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE BULLION COMMITTEE BRIEFLY STATED.
46. SECTION I.: Exchange with Hamburgh.
47. SECTION II.: Exchange with Paris.
48. SECTION III.: Supposed Fact of a Premium on English Currency in America—Favourable Exchange with Sweden.
49. SECTION IV.: A Statement concerning the Par of Exchange, by the Bullion Committee, examined.
50. SECTION I.: That the Negation of the above Conclusion implies the Impossibility of melting or exporting English Coin—an Impossibility contended for by nobody.
51. SECTION II.: Consequences which would follow on the Supposition that the Currencies of other Countries (exclusive of England) were diminished or increased one half.
52. SECTION III.: The trifling Rise in the Price of Gold on the Continent owing solely to a Variation in the Relation of Silver to Gold.
53. SECTION IV.: Failure ascribed to Mr Locke's Theory relative to the Recoinage in 1696.
54. CHAPTER IV.
55. CHAPTER V.
56. CHAPTER VI.
57. CHAPTER VII.
58. CHAPTER VIII.
59. CHAPTER IX.
60. APPENDIX.

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