PART II.
Of Banks.
Chap. I. Of the various kinds of credit,[141]
Chap. II. Of private credit,[144]
Chap. III. Of banks,[146]
Chap. IV. Of banks of circulation upon mortgage or private credit,[150]
Chap. V. Such banks ought to issue their notes on private, not mercantile credit,[153]
Chap. VI. Use of subaltern bankers and exchangers,[154]
Chap. VII. Concerning the obligation to pay in coin, and the consequences thereof,[157]
Chap. VIII. How a wrong balance of trade affects banks of circulation,[161]
Chap. IX. How a grand balance may be paid by banks, without the assistance of coin,[162]
Chap. X. Insufficiency of temporary credits for the payment of a wrong balance,[164]
Chap. XI. Of the hurt resulting to banks, when they leave the payment of a wrong balance to exchangers,[165]
Chap. XII. How the payment of a wrong balance affects circulation,[169]
Chap. XIII. Continuation of the same subject; and of the principles upon which banks ought to borrow abroad, and give credit at home,[178]
Chap. XIV. Of optional clauses contained in bank notes,[195]
Chap. XV. Of subaltern banks of circulation, and of their competition with one another,[202]
Chap. XVI. Of some regulations proper to be made with regard to national banks,[205]
Chap. XVII. When, and in what case, banks should be obliged to keep open books,[208]
Chap. XVIII. Is it the interest of banks to grant credits and cash accompts to exchangers and others, who make a trade of sending coin out of the country?[210]
Chap. XIX. Application of the principles above deduced, towards forming the policy of circulation,[212]
Chap. XX. Objections to this doctrine,[215]
Chap. XXI. How, by a return of a favourable balance, the bank may be enabled to pay off the debts due to foreigners, and thus deliver the nation from that burden,[218]
Chap. XXII. Of banks of circulation, established on mercantile credit,[220]
Chap. XXIII. Of the first establishment of Mr. Law’s bank of circulation, in the year 1716,[235]
Chap. XXIV. Account of the variations of the French coin some time before and after the death of Louis XIV.[236]
Chap. XXV. Continuation of the account of Law’s bank,[239]
Chap. XXVI. Account of the royal Mississippi bank of France, established on public credit,[243]
Chap. XXVII. A short account of the French company of the Indies,[247]
Chap. XXVIII. Chronological anecdotes,[250]
Chap. XXIX. Continuation of the royal bank of France, until the time the company cf the Indies promised a dividend of 200 livres per action,[252]
Chap. XXX. Inquiry into the motives of the Duke of Orleans in concerting the plan of the Mississippi,[256]
Chap. XXXI. Continuation of the account of the royal bank of France, until the total bankruptcy the 21st of May 1720,[265]
Chap. XXXII. Conclusion of the Mississippi scheme,[270]
Chap. XXXIII. Why credit fell, and how it might have been supported,[276]
Chap. XXXIV. How the diminishing the denomination of the paper in circulation, by the arret of the 21st of May 1720, destroyed the credit of France, when the same arbitrary measures taken with regard to the coin had produced no such effect,[284]
Chap. XXXV. How a bank may be safely established in France, as matters stand at present,[289]
Chap. XXXVI. Of banks of deposit and transfer,[291]
Chap. XXXVII. Of the bank of Amsterdam,[292]
Chap. XXXVIII. Of the agio of the bank of Amsterdam,[294]
Chap. XXXIX. Continuation of the same subject; and concerning the circulation of coin through the bank of Amsterdam,[298]
PART III.
Of Exchange.
Chap. I. OF the first principles of exchange,[310]
Chap. II. How to determine exactly the true and intrinsic value of the metals, coin, or money, in which a balance to foreign nations is to be paid,[316]
Chap. III. How to remove the inconveniences which occur in paying balances with the metals or coin of a nation,[325]
Chap. IV. How the price of exchange, in a prosperous trading nation, may be prevented from operating upon the whole mass of reciprocal payments, instead of affecting the balance only,[333]
Chap. V. How, when other expedients prove ineffectual for discharging of balances, the same may be paid by the means of credit, without the intervention of coin or bullion; and who are they who ought to conduct that operation,[344]
PART IV.
Of public Credit.
Chap. I. Of the various consequences of public debts,[348]
Chap. II. Of the rise and progress of public credit,[351]
Chap. III. Of anticipations, or borrowing money upon assignments to taxes, for the discharge of principal and interest,[354]
Chap. IV. Of the state of public credit in France before the reign of Louis XIV. and of the sentiments of the great Richlieu upon that subject,[367]
Chap. V. Of the present state of public credit in Great Britain,[380]
Chap. VI. State of the public credit of France; their debts, funds, and appropriations, at the peace 1763,[402]
Chap. VII. Comparative view of the revenue, debts, and credit of Great Britain and France,[438]
Chap. VIII. Contingent consequences of the extension of credit, and increase of debts,[441]
Chap. IX. Of bankruptcies,[456]
Chap. X. Methods of contracting and paying off public debts,[465]
BOOK V.
Of Taxes, and of the proper application of their amount.
INTRODUCTION,[482]
Chap. I. Of the different kinds of taxes,[484]
Chap. II. Of proportional taxes, and their proper object,[486]
Chap. III. How proportional taxes are drawn back by the industrious; and how that drawing back is the only reason why taxes raise the prices of commodities,[490]
Chap. IV. Of cumulative taxes,[495]
Chap. V. Of the inconveniences which proceed from proportional taxes, and of the methods of removing them,[500]
Chap. VI. Cumulative and proportional taxes compared with one another, and farther examined,[517]
Chap. VII. Consequences of taxes, when the amount of them is properly applied,[523]
Chap. VIII. Of the extent of taxation,[527]
Chap. IX. The consequences of an abolition of taxes,[542]
Chap. X. Are taxes a spur to industry, as some pretend?[556]
Chap. XI. Considerations upon land taxes, with some observations upon those of England and France,[561]
Chap. XII. Miscellaneous questions upon taxes,[577]
Chap. XIII. Recapitulation of the fourth book,[593]
Chap. XIV. Recapitulation of the fifth book,[637]

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