The Wealth of Nations_ Books 4-5 - Adam Smith [371]
Watch movements, great reduction in the prices of, owing to mechanical improvements, 351.
Wealth and money, synonymous terms, in popular language, 5, 27. Spanish and Tartarian estimate of, compared, 6. The great authority conferred by the possession of, 299.
Weavers, the profits of, why necessarily greater than those of spinners, 154.
West Indies discovered by Columbus,
139. How they obtained this name,
140. The original native productions of, ib. The thirst of gold the object of all the Spanish enterprises there, 143. And of those of every other European nation, 145. The remoteness of, greatly in favour of the European colonies there, 147 – 8. The sugar colonies of France better governed than those of britain, 168.
Wheat. See Corn. Window tax in Britain, how rated,
439. Tends to reduce house-rent, ib. Windsor market, chronological table of the prices of corn at, 364–7.
Wine, the cheapness of, would be a cause of sobriety, 71. The carrying trade in, encouraged by English statutes, 79
Wood, the price of, rises in proportion as a country is cultivated, 270–71. The growth of young trees prevented by cattle, ib. When the planting of trees becomes a profitable employment, ib.
Wool, the produce of rude countries, commonly carried to a distant market, 335. The price of, in England, has fallen considerably since the time of Edward III., 337. Causes of this diminution in price, 337–8. The price of, considerably reduced in Scotland, by the union with England, 341. Severity of the laws against the exportation of, 232. Restraints upon the inland commerce of, ib. Restraints upon the coasting trade of, ib. Pleas on which these restraints are founded, 235 – 6. The price of wool depressed by these regulations, ib. The exportation of, ought to be allowed, subject to a duty, 238.
Woollen cloth, the present prices of, compared with those at the close of the fifteenth century, 351. Three mechanical improvements introduced in the manufacture of, 353–4.
FINIS
1. Corr, letter 150, 1 April 1776.
2. Corr, letter 151, 3 April 1776.
3. Corr, letter 153, 8 April 1776.
4. Corr, pp. 189, 193.
5. TMS, advertisement.
1. The following are the prices at which the bank of Amsterdam at present (September, 1775) receives bullion and coin of different kinds:–.
1. This paragraph was written in the year 1775.
1. See the accounts at the end of the volume.
1. Before the 13th of the present king, the following were the duties payable upon the importation of the different sorts of grain:–
1. See Dictionaire des Monnoies, tom. ii. article Seigneurage, p. 489, par M. Abot de Bazinghen, Conseiller-Commissaire en la Cour des Monnoies aà Paris.
1. Jus Majoratus.
1. The interest of every proprietor of India stock, however, is by no means the same with that of the country in the government of which his vote gives him some influence. See book v. chap. i. part iii.
1. See book I. chap. i.
1. See the Journal of Mr De Lange in Bell’s Travels, vol. ii. pp. 258–276, and 293.
1. Plin. 1. ix. c. 39.
1. Plin. 1. viii. c. 48.
1. They are to be found in Tyrrell’s History of England.
1. Since publishing the two first editions of this book, I have got good reasons to believe that all the turnpike tolls levied in Great Britain do not produce a net revenue that amounts to half a million; a sum which, under the management of Government, would not be sufficient to keep in repair five of the principal roads in the kingdom.
1. I have now good reasons to believe that all these conjectural sums are by much too large.
1 See Memoires concernant les Droits et Impositions en Europe, tome i. page 73. This work was compiled by the order of the court for the use of a commission employed for some years past in considering the proper means for reforming the finances of France. The account of the French taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, may be regarded as perfectly authentic. That of those