...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...wer the price of work, but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes, the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, a farmer, a mas... ...d in nothing but the punishment or ruin of the ringleaders. But though, in disputes with their workmen, masters must gen- erally have the advantage, t... ...mbled upon any sudden occasion, they frequently had the advantage in their disputes with the neighbouring lords. In coun- tries such as Italy or Switz... ... those whom that militia would obey. It is a mistake to imagine that those territorial jurisdictions took their origin from the feudal law. Not only t... ...session of this revenue; but in 1767, admin- istration laid claim to their territorial acquisitions, and the rev- enue arising from them, as of right ... ...ent together, but by £680,000, beyond what they had been before their late territorial acquisitions. What the gross revenue of those territorial acqui...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...