An Inquiry Into the Principles of Political Economy, Volume 1

A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767

Of Population and Agriculture	1

Of the fpirit of a people	8

Upon what principles and from what natural caufes do mankind	17

In what manner and according to what principles and political	26

The effects of flavery upon the multiplication and employment	36

What are the principles which regulate the diftribution of inha	46

Of the diftribution of inhabitants into claffes of the employ	59

Of the great advantage of combining a well digeſted theory	67

Of what is called expence profit and lofs	205

Of the balance of work and demand	216

Why in time this balance is deſtroyed	225

Of the competition between nations	232

Security eafe and happineſs no infeparable concomitants	250

A general view of the principles to be attended to by a ſtateſman	261

Illuſtration of ſome principles laid down in the former chapter	272

Symptoms of decay in foreign trade	278

Continuation of the fame fubject with regard to the neceffity	75

Of the abufe of agriculture and population	82

Application of the above principles to the ſtate of population	95

Why are fome countries found very populous in reſpect	101

In what manner and according to what proportion do plenty	109

Is the introduction of machines into manufactures prejudicial	119

Mifcellaneous obfervations upon agriculture and population	124

Recapitulation of the firſt book	149

BOOK II	161

Of Demand	172

How the prices of goods come to be determined by trade	181

How foreign trade opens to an induftrious people and the confe	184

Confequences of the introduction of a paffive foreign trade	190

Of double competition	196

Of infant foreign and domeſtic trade with refpect to	301

Of phyfical and political neceffaries	311

Preliminary reflections upon inland commerce	319

When a nation which has enriched herſelf by a reciprocal	328

What is the proper method to put a stop to a foreign trade	336

When a rich nation finds her foreign trade reduced to	343

Of the vibration of the balance of wealth between the fubjects	359

Circulation and the balance of wealth objects worthy of	374

Circulation confidered with regard to the rife and fall of	394

Circulation with foreign nations the fame thing as the balance	414

Mifcellaneous queftions and obfervations relative to trade	426

Recapitulation of the fecond book	482

BOOK III	521

Title	An Inquiry Into the Principles of Political Economy, Volume 1 An Inquiry Into the Principles of Political Economy, James Steuart Scottish economic classics
Author	James Steuart
Publisher	A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767
Original from	the Bavarian State Library
Digitized	4 Sep 2012

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