- Labour, the different obligations to, in antient and modern times, I. [59].
- How the methods of, are to be improved, id. [193].
- Land, the disproportion between the rents of arable and pasture, accounted for, I. [43].
- Landed interest, examination into, I. [622].
- Landed men, inquiry whether they might not issue their own notes on the security of their land, without the intervention of a bank, II. [131].
- Landed property, the inconvenience of minute subdivisions of, I. [85].
- Inquiry into the expediency of the equal distribution of, id. [124].
- Landholder and stockholder, how comparatively affected by taxation, II. [448].
- Land tax in Scotland, defect in, II. [497].
- Law, Mr. account of the establishment of his bank, II. [235], [239].
- Laws, none really invariable, in any government, I. [7].
- Levity, remarks on the influence of, in luxury, I. [280].
- Liberty, public, in what it is understood to consist, I. [237].
- Capable of subsisting under despotic forms of government, id. ib.
- Liberty, universal, established in Europe, and the consequences of, I. [70].
- Linen manufacture, by what means it has been augmented in Scotland and Ireland, I. [86].
- Loans upon interest, if deemed unlawful in a religious view, expedient to avoid, I. [370].
- Locke, Mr. mistake of, corrected, in relation to a proposed alteration of silver coinage, I. [554], [602].
- Lotteries, the advantage of, to the government, II. [400. n.]
- When only proper to be used for paying of public debts, id. [479].
- Lowndes, Mr. examination into the present propriety of his scheme for regulating the coin in 1695, I. [602].
- Luxury, the term defined, I. [31], [307].
- The parent of public distress, ib. [212].
- In what instance to be encouraged, ib. [263].
- This farther explained, id. [276].
- How to be effected, id. [277].
- Changes in the modes of, ever distressing to manufacturers, id. [280].
- Political improvement of this circumstance, id. ib.
- The interests affected by, id. [307].
- The mind, id. [308].
- The body, id. [309].
- The fortune, id. ib.
- The state, id. ib.
- Its different effects on different antient nations, remarked, and accounted for, id. [324].
- Its effects in modern times, id. [325].
- Prejudicial to courage, id. [452].
- Modern, the cause of, hinted, id. [462].
- Lycurgus, the tendency of his laws to encourage population, shewn, I. [70].
- Why there was no industry in his republic, id. [193].
- His republic the most perfect plan of political œconomy, id. [250].
- His laws transmitted by tradition only, id. [251].
- The sanction he obtained for them, id. ib.
- His regulation of property, id. [252].
- Cloathing, id. [253].
- The cruel treatment of the helots, id. [254].
- His plan of education, id. [255].
- Remarks on the austerity of his institutions, id. [256].
- His care to guard against the Spartans having an intercourse with foreign nations, id. [257].
- Conclusions drawn from a supposed adoption of his system by any modern nation, id. [259].
M.
- Machines, the introduction of, into manufactures, whether hurtful or beneficial to a date, I. [119], [295].
- Mankind, in what respect alike in all ages, I. [6].
- Manners of a people, national peculiarities in, noticed, I. [8].
- The simplicity of, how it affects population, I. [36].
- Manufactures, the principles which determine the residence of, I. [49].
- Their flourishing or decaying in particular places, accounted for, id. [182].
- The proper method of lowering the prices of, to render them vendible at foreign markets, id. [283].
- Why particular ones cannot be furnished so cheap at home, as by other countries, id. [284].
- The importance of their being properly situated, id. [289].
- Manufacturers, why those who work for exportation are the poorest, II. [10].
- More hurt by their own idleness and extravagance than by taxes, id. [505].
- Markets, public, their great use in trade, I. [180].
- Marriage, political considerations on, I. [71].
- Master, his right to share in the profits of his journeymen, proved, I. [318].
- Maxims, general ones, the danger of adopting, I. [60].
- Medals and coin, the difference between, II. [68].
- Megens, Mr. his sentiments concerning the coin of the bank of England, II. [158].
- Melon, M. de, his remark on the proper qualifications of a statesman, I. [377].
- Merchant, observations on the profession of, I. [177].
- Metal, the term defined, II. [46].
- Why a scale of value realized in, can never be exact, ib. id. [54].
- How the proportion of those in coin, is kept nearly the same in all European markets, id. [62].
- Why this proportion so different between Europe and Asia, id. [63].
- How to determine the true intrinsic value of those in which a balance to foreign nations is to be paid, id. [316].
- How to remove the inconveniences which occur in such payments, id. [325].
- Metropolis, the growth of, accounted for, I. [48].
- A large one, whether disadvantageous to a country, id. [52].
- Militia, reflections on, I. [136].
- Mind, the effects of luxurious gratifications on, I. [308].
- Minot, a French measure, what, II. [576], n.
- Mint, French unit of weight in, II. [70].
- Weights of Holland, England, France, and Germany, proportion among, id. [87].
- Missisippi bank of France, account of the establishment of, II. [243], [252], [265].
- Modesty, reflections on, with reference to the Spartans, I. [258].
- Monarchy and democracy, compared, I. [242].
- Their different influences on trade, id. [243].
- Monasteries, magnificent ones, how advantageous to a country, I. [468].
- Money, the term defined, I. [32].
- How to be procured, id. ib.
- The plenty of, productive of luxury, id. [33].
- The effects of the introduction of, on trade, id. [176].
- Observations on that of Sparta, id. [259].
- An inquiry into the principles of the circulation of, id. [360].
- Real, and symbolical, what, id. [364].
- Illustrated, id. [381].
- Ready, caution necessary in taxing it, id. [387].
- No real and adequate proportion between, and goods, id. [394].
- In countries of simplicity, id. [395].
- In countries of industry, id. [397].
- Paper, whether advantageous to a nation, id. [408].
- Whether a tenfold increase of, in Europe, would raise the prices of commodities in the same proportion, id. [413].
- Whether any judgment can be formed concerning the balance of trade of a nation, barely from the quantity of specie that is found in it, id. [429].
- The dissipation of by individuals, not expedient to be checked, id. [471].
- Defined, id. [526].
- A scale for measuring the value of things, id. ib.
- On what principles the value of things is determined, id. [527].
- The prices of things not regulated by the quantity of, id. ib.
- Necessity of distinguishing between, and price, id. [529].
- Of account, what, and how contrived, id. [ib.]
- Bank, id. [531].
- Angola, id. [ib.]
- Usefulness of the precious metals in making, id. [532].
- Standard, how to be adjusted, id. [533].
- Debasing and raising a standard, what, id. [534].
- Alteration of the standard, how to be discovered, id. ib.
- Of alloy, id. ib.
- Incapacities of metals to constitute invariable measures of value, id. [535].
- The obligation of such measures to be invariable, id. [ib.]
- Consequences of their variation, id. [536].
- Defects of a silver standard, id. [537].
- Arguments in favour of a silver standard, id. [ib.]
- Answers to those arguments, id. [538].
- Usefulness of an universal measure, id. [539].
- Why metals incapacitated from performing the office of, id. [540].
- Wearing in circulation, id. [ib.]
- Inaccuracy in coining, id. [541].
- Coinage adding to the value, without adding to the weight, id. ib.
- The smallest defects of, profited by in trade, id. ib.
- Five remedies against the effects of the variation in the value of metals, id. [542].
- Remedies against other inconveniences, id. [544].
- Remedies against the wearing of coin, id. [ib.]
- Remedies against inaccuracy in coinage, id. [ib.]
- Remedies against the expence of coinage, id. [ib.]
- Remedies against arbitrary changes in the value of coin, id. [545].
- How the market price of the metals is made to vary, id. ib.
- The variation to be referred to the rising metal, not to the sinking, id. [546].
- Of account, how made to vary in its value, from the variation of the metals, and the consequences, id. [547].
- What the mean proportional between the value of the metals, id. [ib.]
- The unit to be attached to the mean proportion, upon a new coinage, not after the metals have varied, id. [548].
- The unit better to be affixed to one metal than to both, id. [549].
- To what variation the unit is exposed, from the wearing of the coin, id. ib.
- To what variation the unit is exposed, from the inaccuracy in the fabrication of coin, id. [550].
- Variations to which the unit is exposed, from the imposition of coinage, id. [551].
- When coinage imposed, bullion cheaper than coin, id. [ib.]
- Exception, id. [552].
- Variation to which the unit is exposed, from the arbitrary raising and debasing the coin by Princes, id. ib.
- How this variation affects the interests of debtors and creditors, id. [553].
- A mistake of Mr. Locke in relation to, corrected, id. [555].
- Defects in the British coinage, id. [558].
- Of the standard of English coin and money unit, id. [ib.]
- Coinage free in England, id. [559].
- The standard, when attached to the gold coin, id. [560].
- Consequences of that regulation, id. [ib.]
- Silver, sometimes considered as a money of accompt, id. [561].
- Jobbers in, their practices explained, id. [562]. [565].
- Why silver bullion is dearer than coin, id. [ib.]
- What regulates the price of bullion, id. [564].
- The intrinsic value of the currency, id. ib.
- Paper, the use of, not hurtful in debasing the standard, id. [571].
- The standard how shewn to have been debased, id. [574].
- Proof that the standard has been debased by law, id. [575].
- The standard at present reduced to the value of the gold, id. ib.
- How the disorder in the coin may be remedied without inconveniences, id. [576].
- If the present standard be departed from, all other arbitrary, id. [577].
- The present standard not the same with that of Queen Elizabeth, id. [578].
- Anecdotes of its alterations, id. ib.
- Debasing the standard, chiefly affects permanent contracts, id. [581].
- Why silver so scarce, id. [583].
- Consequences of fixing the guinea at twenty shillings, id. ib.
- How to fix the pound sterling at the standard of Queen Elizabeth, id. [587].
- The consequences of this reformation, id. [588].
- Sufferers by the debasement of the standard, have a right to redress, id. [590].
- But not the whole class of creditors, id. ib.
- Whose claim ought to be liable to conversion, id. [591].
- Objections against the principles before laid down, id. [593].
- Answers to them, id. [595].
- Upon whom the loss incurred by the wear of it, falls, id. [598].
- Inland dealings not able to support the standard where there are money-jobbers, or foreign commerce, id. [599].
- Public currency supports the authority of the coin, not the value of the pound sterling, id. [601].
- In what sense the standard debased by law, and in what sense by the operation of other political causes, id. [614].
- The payments made by bankers regulate all other, id. [615].
- Regulation proposed for the coin, id. [634].
- The first introduction of coinage must reduce the prices of commodities, II. [3].
- Why the doctrine of money appears so intricate, id. [45].
- The difference between raising the value of coin by imposing coinage, and raising the denomination of it, id. [50].
- Whether it is the interest of England to debase the standard of, id. [64].
- The borrowing of, for carrying on trade, more relative to the merchant than the manufacturer, id. [137].
- Montesquieu, Mr. examination of his doctrine concerning the influence of riches on the prices of commodities, I. [398].
- Multiplication of people, the three principles of, I. [90].
- Whether the efficient cause of agriculture, or agriculture of multiplication, id. [114].
N.
- Nation, every interest in, intitled to protection, I. [589].
- Nations, trading, compared to a fleet of ships, I. [233].
- Navigation, remarks on the consequences of the act of, in England, I. [343].
- Naturalization of strangers, ineffectual in the view of lowering the prices of manufactures, I. [290].
- Necessaries, an inquiry into the cause of a rise in the prices of, I. [291].
- Netherlands, Austrian, the cities of, in a state of depopulation, and the reason, I. [334. n.]
- Nobility, the advantages of a numerous one, to a state, I. [63].
O.
P.
- Padua, observations on the soil and produce of the country round, I. [140].
- Paper money, how realized, II. [110].
- Paris, remarks on the state of agriculture round, I. [139].
- Partisans in France, what, and cardinal Richlieu’s sentiments on their conduct, II. [369].
- Their extortions, why not then to be remedied, id. [370].
- The present regulation of them, id. ib.
- Pay of the soldiery, political plan for the regulation of, I. [449].
- Payments, those made by bankers regulate all others, I. [615].
- Petty, Sir William, his computations of the number of inhabitants and consumption of provisions in England, I. [41].
- Population, how limited, I. [18]. [113].
- Populous, inquiry into the meaning of this word, when affirmed of a country, I. [102].
- Populousness of antient nations, inquiry into the question concerning, I. [38].
- Posts for the conveyance of letters, their great use in commerce, I. [180].
- Pound sterling, two legal ones in England, I. [568].
- Premiums on exportation of commodities, reflexions on, I. [297].
- Prerogative, regal, often arbitrarily exercised, from a view to establish public liberty on a more extensive bottom, I. [248].
- Price, what understood by, II. [46].
- Prices, how regulated on necessaries and on superfluities, I. [440].
- The rise of, on articles of home consumption accounted for, II. [9].
- How kept down on articles of exportation, id. 1
- Princes, how those who incline to rob their subjects may avoid robbing themselves at the same time, II. [65].
- Producers and consumers, an analysis of the principles which influence the alterations in the political balance between, I. [264].
- Profit and loss, explained and distinguished, I. [206].
- Profits, how they consolidate into prime cost, II. [8].
- Consolidated, the ill effects of, and how to remedy, I. [289].
- Property, how regulated under the Spartan government, I. [252].
- Inconsumable, what, I. [360].
- Consumable, what, id. [361].
- Consequences of the alienation of both kinds, id. [1]
- Incorporeal, id. [369].
- Landed and monied, the different ways of life of the possessors of each compared, II. [478. n.]
- Permanent, the expediency of its contributing to the burdens of the state, I. [387].
- Solid, how understood, II. [149].
- Provisions, those produced in most countries, nearly consumed by the respective inhabitants, I. [109].
- The consequences of an augmentation in the value of, I. [226].
- Public money, heinous nature of all attempts to defeat the application of, I. [297].
- Public spirit, an improper principle of action in the governed, I. [164].
- Public works, not the produce of the wealth of a nation, I. [464].
Q.