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Also by P. J. O’Rourke
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER 1 An Inquiry into An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith’s Simple Principles
Why an Inquiry into Adam Smith’s Simple Principles Is Not an Inquiry, First, into Adam Smith
Adam Smith’s Less Simple Principles
Adam Smith’s More Complicated Principles
Adam Smith’s Principles: Their Principal Effect
CHAPTER 2 Why Is The Wealth of Nations So Damn Long?
CHAPTER 3 The Theory of Moral Sentiments In the Augean Stables of the Human Condition, Adam Smith Tries to Muck Out the Stalls
CHAPTER 4 The Wealth of Nations, Book 1 How the High Price of Freedom Makes the Best Things in Life Free
The Wealth of Nations, Book 1
The Divisibility of Labor
The Indivisibility of Price
Adam Smith, Capitalism’s Scourge
Adam Smith, Capitalism’s Champion
Adam Smith, Capitalism’s Original Money Maven
Adam Smith, Capitalism’s Therapist
CHAPTER 5 The Wealth of Nations, Book 2 ‘Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock’ Let Adam Smith Be Your Market Guru
Central Banking for Dummies
What the Heck Is Money Anyway?
And What Is a Bank?
So What Are Banks Really Good For?
So We Need to, Like, Regulate Banks
What Is a ‘Central’ Bank?
The Adam Smith Plan for Increased Wealth (of Nations): How Central Banks Can Use Paper Money to Make the Great Instrument of Commerce Work Cheap
So There Are Limitations to What Private Banks and Central Banks Can Do to Improve the Economy, but Can’t Institutions Like the World Bank Provide the Economic Stimulus We Need to Eliminate Poverty and Aid Developing Nations?
CHAPTER 6 The Wealth of Nations, Book 2, Continued: Adam Smith, Un-Motivational Speaker
The 13 Habits of Highly (It Is to Be Hoped) Ineffective Government Economic Planners
1. Be vulgar and obvious.
2. Let John Q. Citizen do all the work.
3. Make the whole government as unproductive as the economic planners are.
4. Keep government spending in check. Let other spending run wild.
5. Wreck the balance of trade.
6. Everybody hates lower trade barriers. Lower them anyway.
7. Human capital – it ain’t just PhDs.
8. Buy retail.
9. Modern life is stressful, overscheduled, and job-obsessed – keep it that way.
10. Don’t put your money in a safe place.
11. Get all confused about globalization.
12. Ignore the experts.
13. Especially, ignore the economists.
CHAPTER 7 The Wealth of Nations, Book 3 ‘Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations’ and How We Have the Stupidity of the Powerful to Thank for It
CHAPTER 8 The Wealth of Nations, Book 4 ‘Of Systems of Political Economy’ Adam Smith Tackles the Chinese Trade Menace
CHAPTER 9 The Wealth of Nations, Book 4, Continued: Adam Smith versus the Ideological Swine When They Were Still Cute, Squealing Piglets
CHAPTER 10 Adam Smith, America’s Founding Dutch Uncle
CHAPTER 11 The Wealth of Nations, Book 5 ‘Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth’ Adam Smith, Policy Wonk
‘Of the Expence of Justice’
‘Of the Public Works and Institutions for facilitating the Commerce of Society’
‘Of the Expence of the Institutions for the Instruction of People of all Ages’
‘Of Taxes’
CHAPTER 12 Adam Smith’s Lost Book
CHAPTER 13 An Inquiry into Adam Smith
Who Adam Smith Really Was, and to What Extent It’s None of Our Business
Adam Smith’s Life – A Very Economical Sketch
CHAPTER 14 Adam Smith in Heaven
APPENDIX
NOTES
BIBLIOGRPHY
Works of Adam Smith
Modern Library Editions
The Glasgow Editions
Other Books and Articles
INDEX
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