这是一部彻底改变了劳动与财富观念的书。在促成我们现代生活方式的诸多因素中，《国富论》可媲美任何一本重要的现代典籍。《国富论》与《圣经》《资本论》同为人类不朽的智慧宝典。

从国富的基础——劳动，到促进劳动生产力提高的手段——分工，再到因分工而出现的交换，以及交换的媒介——货币，再到商品的价格，以及构成价格的基本成分——工资、地租和利润。《国富论》总结了近代各国资本主义的发展经验，批判地吸纳了它之前的重要经济理论，对国民经济的运行过程作了系统的整体描述，是现代经济学的集大成之作。本书为英文版。

INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK

BOOK I

Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labour, and of the

Order According to Which its Produce is Naturally Distributed among the

Different Ranks of the People

 CHAPTER I

OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR

 CHAPTER II

OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF

LABOUR

 CHAPTER III

THAT THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IS LIMITED BY THE EXTENT OF THE

MARKET

 CHAPTER IV

OF THE ORIGIN AND USE OF MONEY

 CHAPTER V

OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL PRICE OF COMMODITIES, OR OF THEIR

PRICE IN LABOUR, AND THEIR PRICE IN MONEY

 CHAPTER VI

OF THE COMPONENT PART OF THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES

 CHAPTER VII

OF THE NATURAL AND MARKET PRICE OF COMMODITIES

 CHAPTER VIII

OF THE WAGES OF LABOUR

 CHAPTER IX

OF THE PROFITS OF STOCK

 CHAPTER X

OF WAGES AND PROFIT IN THE DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS OF

LABOUR AND STOCK

PART I. Inequalities arising from the Nature of the Employments themselves..

PART II. Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe

 CHAPTER XI

OF THE RENT OF LAND

PART I.Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent

PART II. Of the Produce of Land, which sometimes does, and sometimes does not

afford Rent

PART III. Ofthe variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of that

sort of Produce which always affords Rent, and of that which sometimes does,

and sometimes does not, afford Rent

Digression concerning the Variations in the value of Silver during the Course of

the Four last Centuries. First Period

Second Period

Third Period 

Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of Gold and Silver

Grounds of the suspicion that the Value of Silver still continues to decrease

Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon three different sorts of rude

Produce

First Sort

Second sort

Third Sort

Conclusion of the Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver

Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real Price of Manufactures

Conclusion of the Chapter

BOOK II

Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock

  INTRODUCTION

  CHAPTER I

OF THE DIVISION OF STOCK

  CHAPTER II

OF MONEY, CONSIDERED AS A PARTICULAR BRANCH OF THE

GENERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF

MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

  CHAPTER III

OF THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL, OR OF PRODUCTIVE AND

UNPRODUCTIVE LABOUR

  CHAPTER IV

OF STOCK LENT AT INTEREST

  CHAPTER V

OF THE DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS OF CAPITALS

BOOK III

Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations

  CHAPTER I

OF THE NATURAL PROGRESS OF OPULENCE

 CHAPTER II

OF THE DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE

OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

 CHAPTER III

OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL

OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

 CHAPTER IV

HOW THE COMMERCE OF TOWNS CONTRIBUTED TO THE

IMPROVEMENT OF THE COUNTRY

BOOK IV

Of Systems of political Economy

 INTRODUCTION

  CHAPTER I

OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE COMMERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM

  CHAPTER II

OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF

SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME

  CHAPTER III 

OF THE EXTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF

GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH

WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEOUS

Part I Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the Principles of the

Commercial System

Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly concerning that of

Amsterdam

PART II. Of the Unreasonableness of those extraordinary Restraints, upon other

Principles

  CHAPTER IV

OF DRAWBACKS

  CHAPTER V

OF BOUNTIES

  CHAPTER VI

OF TREATIES OF COMMERCE

  CHAPTER VII

OF COLONIES

PART I.Of the Motives for establishing new Colonies

PART II. Causes of the Prosperity of new Colonies

PART III. Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of

America, and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope.

  CHAPTER VIII

CONCLUSION OF THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM

  CHAPTER IX

OF THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS, OR OF THOSE SYSTEMS OF

POLITICAL ECONOMY WHICH REPRESENT THE PRODUCE OF LAND,

AS EITHER THE SOLE OR THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF THE REVENUE

AND WEALTH OF EVERY COUNTRY

BOOK V 

Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

  CHAPTER I

OF THE EXPENSES OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH

PART I.Of the Expense of Defence

PART II. Of the Expense of Justice

PART III. Of the Expense of public Works and public Institutions

ARTICLE I. Of the public Works and Institutions for facilitating the Commerce of

the Society And, first, of those which are necessary for facilitating Commerce in

general 

Of the public Works and Institution which are necessary for facilitating particular

Branches of Commerce

ARTICLE II. Of the Expense of the Institution for the Education of Youth

ARTICLE III. Of the Expense of the Institutions for the Instruction of People of

all Ages

PART IV. Of the Expense of supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign

CONCLUSION OF THE CHAPTER

  CHAPTER II

OF THE SOURCES OF THE GENERAL OR PUBLIC REVENUE OF THE

SOCIETY

PART I. Of the Funds, or Sources, of Revenue, which may peculiarly belong to

the Sovereign or Commonwealth

PART II. Of Taxes

ARTICLE I. Taxes upon Rent. Taxes upon the Rent of Land

Taxes which are proportioned, not in the Rent, but to the Produce of Land

Taxes upon the Rent of Houses

ARTICLE II. Taxes upon Profit, or upon the Revenue arising from Stock

Taxes upon the Profit of particular Employments

APPENDIX TO ARTICLES I. AND II. Taxes upon the Capital Value of Land,

Houses, and Stock

ARTICLE III. Taxes upon the Wages of Labour

ARTICLE IV. Taxes which it is intended should fall indifferently upon every

different Species of Revenue

Capitation Taxes

Taxes upon Consumable Commodities

  CHAPTER III

OF PUBLIC DEBTS

APPENDIX