v contents Introduction, ix part 1 1 Of wealth, 3 2 Of human societies, 3 3 Of villages, 5 4 Of market towns, 6 5 Of cities, 8 6 Of capital cities, 9 7 The work of a laborer is worth less than that of a craftsman, 10 8 Some craftsmen earn more and others less according to different cases and circumstances, 11 9 The number of laborers, craftsmen, and others who work in a state is naturally proportioned to the need for them, 12 10 The price and intrinsic value of a thing in general is the amount of land and labor required to produce it, 14 11 Of the par or relation between the value of the land and the value of labor, 16 12 All classes and men in the state are maintained or enriched at the expense of the landlords, 21 13 The circulation and exchange of goods, as well as the production of goods and of merchandise, are carried out in Europe by entrepreneurs in conditions of risk, 24 vi Contents 14 The moods, fashions, and modes of living of the prince and, more particularly, of the landlords determine the uses to which the land is put and are responsible for variations in the market prices of all things, 28 15 The increase and decrease of the state’s population depends principally on the tastes, fashions, and modes of living of the landlords, 32 16 The more labor in a state, the greater the extent that it is considered naturally wealthy, 40 17 Of metals and money, particularly gold and silver, 44 part 2 1 Of barter, 55 2 Of market prices, 56 3 Of the circulation of money, 58 4 Further reflection on the rapidity or slowness of the circulation of money in exchange, 65 5 Of the inequality in the circulation of actual money in a state, 69 6 Of the increase and reduction in the actual quantity of money in a state, 74 7 Continuation of the same topic relating to the increase or reduction of the actual quantity of money in a state, 81 8 Further reflection on changes in the quantity of money in a state, 83 9 Of the interest of money and its causes, 91 10 and last The causes of the increase and decrease of the interest rate on money in a state, 97 Contents vii part 3 1 Of foreign trade, 105 2 Of the exchanges and their nature, 113 3 Further explanations toward an understanding of the nature of exchanges, 118 4 Of the changes in the proportion of values relative to metals that are used as money, 123 5 Of the augmentation and diminution of the denominational value of coin, 131 6 Of banks and their credit, 136 7 Other insights and inquiries concerning the utility of a National Bank, 139 8 Of the refinements of credit of general banks, 144 Index, 147 This page intentionally left blank. ...