VI
CONTENTS.
Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver during the Course of the four last Centuries.
First Period. Page 175
Second Period.189
Third Period.190
Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values
Grounds of the Suspicion that tfle Value of Silver still con-tinues to decrease.212
Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon thereal Price of three different sorts of rude Produce . . .213
First Sort.ib.
Second Sort.215
Third Sort.224
Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in the
Value of Silver.-234
Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price
of Manufactures. 239
Conclusion of the Chapter .244
BOOK II.
Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock.
Introduction. 256
CHAP. I.—Of the Division of Stock.258
CIIAP. II.—Of Money considered as a particular Branch ofthe general Stock of the Society, or of the Expense of main-taining the NationaI',Capital.266
CHAP. HI.—Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of produc-tive .and unproductive Labour.311
CHAP. IV.—Of Stock lent at Interest.330
CHAP. V.—Of the different Employment of Capitals . . 338
BOOK III.
Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations.CHAP. I.—Of the natural Progress of Opulence . . . .354
CHAP. II.—Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in theancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman EmpireS)CHAP. III.—Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns,
after the Fall of the Roman Empire .370
CHAP. IV.—How the Commerce of the Towns contributedto the improvement of the Country.380