- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Plates
- References and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Kirkcaldy
- 2 Boyhood
- 3 Glasgow
- 4 The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson
- 5 Oxford
- 6 A Respectable Auditory
- 7 Lectures on the History of Philosophy and Law
- 8 Called to Glasgow University
- 9 Teacher
- 10 Publishing Scholar and Administrator
- 11 The Making of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 12 Criticism of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 13 Travelling Tutor
- 14 Inquirer into the Wealth of Nations
- 15 The American Crisis and The Wealth of Nations
- 16 Euge! Belle! Dear Mr Smith
- 17 Dialogue With a Dying Man
- 18 Settlement in Edinburgh
- 19 Economic Theorist as Commissioner of Customs
- 20 Literary Pursuits
- 21 Times of Hardship and Distress
- 22 Legacy for Legislators
- 23 The Precariousness of This Life
- 24 The Great Change
- Bibliography
- Index
Inquirer into the Wealth of Nations
Inquirer into the Wealth of Nations
- Chapter:
- (p.220) 14 Inquirer into the Wealth of Nations
- Source:
- The Life of Adam Smith
- Author(s):
Ian Simpson Ross
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Returning to London in November 1766, Smith spent the next six months as an adviser to Buccleuch, and engaged in government research projects on taxation and management of the Sinking Fund intended to reduce public debt. Other assignments were inquiries into Pacific exploration and the history of Roman colonies as a guide, perhaps, to problems in North America. Buccleuch married in May 1767 and Smith spent the next seven years in Kirkcaldy, struggling with bouts of ill health and the perplexing task of composing WN to his satisfaction. Correspondence of this period reveals that Smith was absorbing new information about grain prices and values of silver, with a view to improving his economic system, through refining its self‐correcting feature governed by the price mechanism, in which rents, wages, and profits are detailed as the factors of production.
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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Plates
- References and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Kirkcaldy
- 2 Boyhood
- 3 Glasgow
- 4 The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson
- 5 Oxford
- 6 A Respectable Auditory
- 7 Lectures on the History of Philosophy and Law
- 8 Called to Glasgow University
- 9 Teacher
- 10 Publishing Scholar and Administrator
- 11 The Making of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 12 Criticism of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 13 Travelling Tutor
- 14 Inquirer into the Wealth of Nations
- 15 The American Crisis and The Wealth of Nations
- 16 Euge! Belle! Dear Mr Smith
- 17 Dialogue With a Dying Man
- 18 Settlement in Edinburgh
- 19 Economic Theorist as Commissioner of Customs
- 20 Literary Pursuits
- 21 Times of Hardship and Distress
- 22 Legacy for Legislators
- 23 The Precariousness of This Life
- 24 The Great Change
- Bibliography
- Index
