The Wealth of Nations_ Books 4-5 - Adam Smith [360]
384. Makes no part of the revenue of a society, 385. The term money, in common acceptation, of ambiguous meaning, 386. The circulating money in society, no measure of its revenue, 388. Paper money, ib. The effect of paper on the circulation of cash, 389. Inquiry into the proportion the circulating money of any country bears to the annual produce circulated by it, 393. Paper can never exceed the value of the cash, of which it supplies the place, in any country, 397. The pernicious practice of raising money by circulation explained, 407. The true cause of its exportation, 440. Loans of, the principles of, analysed, 450. Monied interest, distinguished from the landed and trading interest, 451. Inquiry into the real causes of the reduction of interest, 454. Money and wealth synonymous terms in popular language, 5. And moveable goods compared, 6. The accumulation of, studied by the European nations, 7. The mercantile arguments for liberty to export gold and silver, ib. The validity of these arguments examined, 9. Money and goods mutually the price of each other, 11. Overtrading causes complaints of the scarcity of money, 13–14. Why more easy to buy goods with money, than to buy money with goods, 15. Inquiry into the circulating quantity of, in Great Britain,
18. Effect of the discovery of the American mines on the value of, 24. Money and wealth different things,
27. Bank money explained, 58. See Coin, Gold, and Silver.
Monopolies in trade or manufactures, the tendency of, 164. Are enemies to good management, 251. Tendency of making a monopoly of colony trade, 190. Countries which have colonies, obliged to share their advantages with many other countries, 212. The chief engine in the mercantile system, 214. How monopolies derange the natural distribution of the stock of the society,
216. Are supported by unjust and cruel laws, 233. Of a temporary nature, how far justifiable, 343. Perpetual monopolies injurious to the people at large, 344.
Montauban, the inequalities in the predial taille in that generality, how rectified, 427.
Montesquieu, reasons given by him for the high rates of interest among all Mahometan nations, 198. Examination of his idea of the cause of lowering the rate of interest of money, 454.
Morality, two different systems of, in every civilised society, 381. The principal points of distinction between them, ib. The ties of obligation in each system, 382. Why the morals of the common people are more regular in sectaries than under the established church, 383–4. The excesses of, how to be corrected, ib.
Morellet, M., his account of joint stock companies, defective, 344.
Mun, Mr, his illustration of the operation of money exported for commercial purposes, 8.
Music, why a part of the ancient Grecian education, 362. And dancing, great amusements among barbarous nations, 363.
Nations, sometimes driven to inhuman customs, by poverty, 104. The number of useful and productive labourers in, always proportioned to the capital stock on which they are employed, 105. The several sorts of industry, seldom dealt with impartially by, ib. Maritime nations, why the first improved, 124. How ruined by a neglect of public œconomy, 442. Evidences of the increase of a national capital, 444. How the expenses of individuals may increase the national capital, 446–7.
Navigation, inland, a great means of improving a country in arts and industry, 124. The advantages of,
251. Act of England, the principal dispositions of, 39–40. Motives that dictated this law, 41. Its political and commercial tendency, ib. Its consequences, so far as it affected the colony trade with England, 177. Diminished the foreign trade with Europe, 178. Has kept up high profits in the British trade, 180. Subjects Britain to a disadvantage