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A Treatise on Political Economy (Biddle ed.)
A Treatise on Political Economy (Biddle ed.), by Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Introductionprose
- 02Book I: Of the Production of Wealth, Book I, Chapter I.: Of What Is to Be Understood by the Term, Production.prose
- 03Book I, Chapter II.: Of the Different Kinds of Industry, and the Mode in Which They Concur in Production.prose
- 04Book I, Chapter III: Of the Nature of Capital, and the Mode in Which It Concurs in the Business of Production.prose
- 05Book I, Chapter IV: On Natural Agents That Assist in the Production of Wealth, and Specially of Land.prose
- 06Book I, Chapter V: On the Mode in Which Industry, Capital, and Natural Agents Unite in Production.prose
- 07Book I, Chapter VI: Of Operations Alike Common to All Branches of Industry.prose
- 08Book I, Chapter VII: Of the Labour of Mankind, of Nature, and of Machinery Respectively.prose
- 09Book I, Chapter VIII: Of the Advantages and Disadvantages Resulting from Division of Labour, and of the Extent to Which prose
- 10Book I, Chapter IX: Of the Different Methods of Employing Commercial Industry, and the Mode in Which They Concur in Prodprose
- 11Book I, Chapter X: Of the Transformations Undergone by Capital in the Progress of Productionprose
- 12Book I, Chapter XI: Of the Formation and Multiplication of Capital.prose
- 13Book I, Chapter XII: Of Unproductive Capitalprose
- 14Book I, Chapter XIII: Of Immaterial Products, or Values Consumed at the Moment of Production.prose
- 15Book I, Chapter XIV: Of the Right of Property.prose
- 16Book I, Chapter XV: Of the Demand or Market for Products.prose
- 17Book I, Chapter XVI: Of the Benefits Resulting from the Quick Circulation of Money and Commodities.prose
- 18Book I, Chapter XVII: Of the Effect of Government Regulations Intended to Influence Production.prose
- 19Section I.: Effect of Regulations prescribing the Nature of Products.prose
- 20Digression, upon What Is Called the Balance of Trade.prose
- 21Section II.: Of the Effect of Regulations fixing the Manner of Production.prose
- 22Section III.: Of Privileged Trading Companies.prose
- 23Section IV.: Of regulations affecting the Corn Trade.prose
- 24Book I, Chapter XVIII: Of the Effect upon National Wealth, Resulting from the Productive Efforts of Public Authority.prose
- 25Book I, Chapter XIX: Of Colonies and Their Products.prose
- 26Book I, Chapter XX: Of Temporary and Permanent Emigration, Considered in Reference to National Wealth.prose
- 27Book I, Chapter XXI: Of the Nature and Uses of Money, Section I.: General Remarks.prose
- 28Section II.: Of the Material of Money.prose
- 29Section III.: Of the Accession of Value a Commodity receives by being Vested with the Character of Money.prose
- 30Section IV.: Of the Utility of Coinage, and of the Charge of its Execution.prose
- 31Section V.: Of Alterations of the Standard Money.prose
- 32Section VI.: Of the reason why Money is neither a Sign nor a Measure.prose
- 33Section VII.: Of a Peculiarity that should be attended to, in estimating the Sums mentioned in History.prose
- 34Section VIII.: Of the Absence of any fixed ratio of Value between one Metal and another.prose
- 35Section IX.: Of Money as it ought to be.prose
- 36Section X.: Of a Copper and Base Metal Coinage.prose
- 37Section XI.: Of the preferable Form of Coined Money.prose
- 38Section XII.: Of the Party, on whom the Loss of the Coin by Wear should properly fallprose
- 39Book I, Chapter XXII: Of Signs or Representatives of Money, Section I.: Of Bills of Exchange and Letters of Credit.prose
- 40Section II.: Of Banks of Deposit.prose
- 41Section III.: Of Banks of Circulation or Discount, and of Bank-notes, or Convertible Paper.prose
- 42Section IV.: Of Paper-Money.prose
- 43Book II: Of the Distribution of Wealth, Book II, Chapter I: Of the Basis of Value; And of Supply and Demand.prose
- 44Book II, Chapter II: The Sources of Revenue.prose
- 45Book II, Chapter III: Of Real and Relative Variation of Price.prose
- 46Book II, Chapter IV: Of Nominal Variation of Price, and of the Peculiar Value of Bullion and of Coin.prose
- 47Book II, Chapter V: Of the Manner in Which Revenue Is Distributed Amongst Society.prose
- 48Book II, Chapter VI: Of What Branches of Production Yield the Most Liberal Recompense to Productive Agency.prose
- 49Book II, Chapter VII: Of the Revenue of Industry, Section I.: Of the Profits of Industry in general.prose
- 50Section II.: Of the Profits of the Man of Science.prose
- 51Section III.: Of the Profits of the Master-agent, or Adventurer, in Industry.prose
- 52Section IV.: Of the Profits of the Operative Labourer.prose
- 53Section V.: Of the Independence accruing to the Moderns from the Advancement of Industry.prose
- 54Book II, Chapter VIII: Of the Revenue of Capital.prose
- 55Section I.: Of Loans at Interest.prose
- 56Section II.: Of the Profits of Capital.prose
- 57Section III.: Of the Employments of Capital most beneficial to Society.prose
- 58Book II, Chapter IX: Of the Revenue of Land, Section I.: Of the Profit of Landed Property.prose
- 59Section II.: Of Rent.prose
- 60Book II, Chapter X: Of the Effect of Revenue Derived by One Nation from Another.prose
- 61Book II, Chapter XI: Of the Mode in Which the Quantity of the Product Affects Population, Section I.: Of Population, as prose
- 62Section II.: Of the influence of the Quality of a national product upon the local distribution of the Population.prose
- 63Book III: Of the Consumption of Wealth, Book III, Chapter I: Of the Different Kinds of Consumption.prose
- 64Book III, Chapter II: Of the Effect of Consumption in General.prose
- 65Book III, Chapter III: Of the Effect of Productive Consumption.prose
- 66Book III, Chapter IV: Of the Effect of Unproductive Consumption in General.prose
- 67Book III, Chapter V: Of Individual Consumption—its Motives and Its Effects.prose
- 68Book III, Chapter VI: On Public Consumption, Section I.: Of the Nature and general Effect of Public Consumption.prose
- 69Section II.: Of the principal Objects of National Expenditure.prose
- 70Of the Charge of Civil and Judicial Administration.prose
- 71Of Charges, Military and Naval.prose
- 72Of the Charges of Public Instruction.prose
- 73Of the Charges of Public Benevolent Institutions.prose
- 74Of the Charges of Public Edifices and Works.prose
- 75Book III, Chapter VII: Of the Actual Contributors to Public Consumption.prose
- 76Book III, Chapter VIII: Of Taxation, Section I.: Of the Effect of all kinds of Taxation in general.prose
- 77Section II.: Of the different Modes of Assessment, and the Classes they press upon respectively.prose
- 78Section III.: Of Taxation in Kind.prose
- 79Section IV.: Of the Territorial or Land-Tax of England.prose
- 80Book III, Chapter IX: Of National Debt, Section I.: Of the Contracting Debt by National Authority, and of its general Efprose
- 81Section II.: Of public Credit, its Basis, and the Circumstances that endanger its Solidity.prose
- 82Appendix a: A Table, Showing the Result of Value Lent to the State, Appendix B: A table, showing the comparative conditiprose