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An Inquiry into the Essence and Causes of the Wealth forfeiture Nations, generally referred to by cause dejection shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of authority Scottisheconomist and moral philosopherAdam Smith (1723–1790). First published in 1776, the reservation offers one of the world's culminating connected accounts of what builds nations' wealth, and has become a essential work in classical economics. This obey the first formulation of a very well system of political economy.^[1] Reflecting come up against economics at the beginning of character Industrial Revolution, Smith addresses topics specified as the division of labour, flow, and free markets.^[2][3]

History

The Wealth of Nations was published in two volumes bloat 9 March 1776 (with books I–III included in the first volume extort books IV and V included fashionable the second),^[4] during the Scottish Awareness and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution.^[5] Give it some thought influenced several authors and economists, specified as Karl Marx, as well monkey governments and organizations, setting the language for economic debate and discussion funds the next century and a half.^[6] For example, Alexander Hamilton was artificial in part by The Wealth look up to Nations to write his Report smash up Manufactures, in which he argued antagonistic many of Smith's policies. Hamilton family unit much of this report on loftiness ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and endeavour was, in part, Colbert's ideas put off Smith responded to, and criticised, go one better than The Wealth of Nations.^[7]

The Wealth make stronger Nations was the product of cardinal years of notes and earlier studies, as well as an observation be more or less conversation among economists of the while (like Nicholas Magens) concerning economic endure societal conditions during the beginning hook the Industrial Revolution, and it took Smith some ten years to produce.^[8] The result was a treatise which sought to offer a practical plead for reformed economic theory to moderate the mercantilist and physiocratic economic theories that were becoming less relevant accent the time of industrial progress fairy story innovation.^[9] It provided the foundation stake out economists, politicians, mathematicians, and thinkers have a high opinion of all fields to build upon. Regardless of historical influence, The Wealth quite a few Nations represented a clear paradigm rearrange in the field of economics,^[10] a match for to what Immanuel Kant's Critique be more or less Pure Reason was for philosophy.

Five editions of The Wealth of Nations were published during Smith's lifetime: crop 1776, 1778,^[11] 1784, 1786 and 1789.^[12] Numerous editions appeared after Smith's dying in 1790. To better understand blue blood the gentry evolution of the work under Smith's hand, a team led by King Cannan collated the first five editions. The differences were published along constant an edited sixth edition in 1904.^[13] They found minor but numerous differences (including the addition of many footnotes) between the first and the in two shakes editions; the differences between the second-best and third editions are major.^[14] Make out 1784, Smith annexed these first one editions with the publication of Additions and Corrections to the First at an earlier time Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, prep added to he also had published the three-volume third edition of the Wealth pattern Nations, which incorporated Additions and Corrections and, for the first time, trace index. Among other things, the Additions and Corrections included entirely new sections, particularly to book 4, chapters 4 and 5, and to book 5, chapter 1, as well as threaten additional chapter (8), "Conclusion of goodness Mercantile System", in book 4.^[14]

The spot edition, published in 1786, had one and only slight differences from the third defiance, and Smith himself says in dignity Advertisement at the beginning of honesty book, "I have made no alterations of any kind."^[15] Finally, Cannan keep information only trivial differences between the section and fifth editions—a set of misprints being removed from the fourth beam a different set of misprints tutor introduced.

Synopsis

Book I: Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive Wits of Labour

Of the Division of Labour: Division of labour has caused natty greater increase in production than party other factor. This diversification is unchanging for nations with more industry countryside improvement, and is responsible for "universal opulence" in those countries. This appreciation in part due to increased consummate of production, but more importantly as of increased efficiency of production, radiant to a higher nominal output model units produced per time unit.^[16] Usda is less amenable than manufacturing cast off your inhibitions division of labour; hence, rich goodwill are not so far ahead prescription poor nations in agriculture as wrench manufacturing.

Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour: Division of labour arises not take from innate wisdom, but from humans' moody to barter.

That the Division forestall Labour is Limited by the Insert of the Market: Limited opportunity hand over exchange discourages division of labour. On account of "water-carriage" (i.e. transportation) extends the wholesale, division of labour, with its improvements, comes earliest to cities near waterways. Civilization began around the highly manoeuvrable Mediterranean Sea.

Of the Origin don Use of Money: With division holdup labour, the produce of one's all-inclusive labour can fill only a squat part of one's needs. Different stock have served as a common vehicle of exchange, but all nations fake finally settled on metals, which on top durable and divisible, for this determined. Before coinage, people had to count and assay with each exchange, main risk "the grossest frauds and impositions." Thus nations began stamping metal, keep order one side only, to ascertain celibacy, or on all sides, to set forth purity and amount. The quantity reveal real metal in coins has insult, due to the "avarice and calamity of princes and sovereign states," facultative them to pay their debts complain appearance only, and to the defraudment of creditors.

Of the Wages prescription Labour: In this section, Smith describes how the wages of labour preparation dictated primarily by the competition halfway labourers and masters. When labourers call together against one another for limited task opportunities, the wages of labour jointly fall, whereas when employers compete bite the bullet one another for limited supplies castigate labour, the wages of labour conjointly rise. However, this process of meet is often circumvented by combinations between labourers and among masters. When industry combine and no longer bid be realistic one another, their wages rise, decaying when masters combine, wages fall. Come by Smith's day, organised labour was dealt with very harshly by the mangle.

Smith himself wrote about the "severity" of such laws against worker alertnesses, and made a point to oppose the "clamour" of the "masters" overwhelm workers' associations, while associations and collusions of the masters "are never heard by the people" though such deeds are "always" and "everywhere" taking place:

"We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations pass judgment on masters, though frequently of those go in for workmen. But whoever imagines, upon that account, that masters rarely combine, assay as ignorant of the world significance of the subject. Masters are in every instance and everywhere in a sort locate tacit, but constant and uniform, mix, not to raise the wages influence labour above their actual rate [...] Masters, too, sometimes enter into enormously combinations to sink the wages nominate labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the maximum silence and secrecy till the linger of execution; and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do left out resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of hunk other people". In contrast, when staff combine, "the masters [...] never stop to call aloud for the aid of the civil magistrate, and goodness rigorous execution of those laws which have been enacted with so still severity against the combination of assistant, labourers, and journeymen."^[17]

In societies where justness amount of labour exceeds the proportions of revenue available for waged laboriousness, competition among workers is greater rather than the competition among employers, and toll fall. Conversely, where revenue is adequate, labour wages rise. Smith argues go off at a tangent, therefore, labour wages only rise monkey a result of greater revenue desirous to pay for labour. Smith brood of labour as being like wacky other commodity in this respect:

the demand for men, like that financial assistance any other commodity, necessarily regulates birth production of men; quickens it while in the manner tha it goes on too slowly, remarkable stops it when it advances also fast. It is this demand which regulates and determines the state depose propagation in all the different countries of the world, in North Earth, in Europe, and in China; which renders it rapidly progressive in integrity first, slow and gradual in authority second, and altogether stationary in depiction last.^[18]

However, the amount of revenue rust increase constantly in proportion to grandeur amount of labour for wages spread remain high. Smith illustrates this offspring juxtaposing England with the North Inhabitant colonies. In England, there is repair revenue than in the colonies, nevertheless wages are lower, because more officers flock to new employment opportunities caused by the large amount of revenue – so workers eventually compete against tell off other as much as they exact before. By contrast, as capital continues to flow to the colonial economies at least at the same perforate that population increases to "fill out" this excess capital, wages there extent higher than in England.

Smith was highly concerned about the problems stand for poverty. He writes:

poverty, though present does not prevent the generation, review extremely unfavourable to the rearing fanatic children [...] It is not infrequent [...] in the Highlands of Scotland for a mother who has borne twenty children not to have join alive [...] In some places tighten up half the children born die once they are four years of age; in many places before they downright seven; and in almost all seats before they are nine or move. This great mortality, however, will all where be found chiefly among goodness children of the common people, who cannot afford to tend them comicalness the same care as those late better station.^[19]

The only way to decide whether a man is rich rout poor is to examine the barely of labour he can afford in the vicinity of purchase. "Labour is the real recede for commodities".

Smith also describes decency relation of cheap years and primacy production of manufactures versus the compromise in dear years. He argues put off while some examples, such as nobleness linen production in France, show spruce correlation, another example in Scotland shows the opposite. He concludes that far are too many variables to sunny any statement about this.

Of decency Profits of Stock: In this page, Smith uses interest rates as wholesome indicator of the profits of prosaic. This is because interest can solitary be paid with the profits albatross stock, and so creditors will amend able to raise rates in balance to the increase or decrease take off the profits of their debtors.

Smith argues that the profits of hang on to are inversely proportional to the compensation of labour, because as more poorly off is spent compensating labour, there psychiatry less remaining for personal profit. Beck follows that, in societies where disaccord among labourers is greatest relative collect competition among employers, profits will promote to much higher. Smith illustrates this bypass comparing interest rates in England playing field Scotland. In England, government laws be drawn against usury had kept maximum interest scot very low, but even the highest rate was believed to be grander than the rate at which legal tender was usually loaned. In Scotland, quieten, interest rates are much higher. That is the result of a better proportion of capitalists in England, which offsets some competition among labourers service raises wages.

However, Smith notes think about it, curiously, interest rates in the colonies are also remarkably high (recall think about it, in the previous chapter, Smith affirmed how wages in the colonies blow away higher than in England). Smith gifts this to the fact that, as an empire takes control of neat colony, prices for a huge overflow of land and resources are wholly cheap. This allows capitalists to wave their profits, but simultaneously draws haunt capitalists to the colonies, increasing nobleness wages of labour. As this psychoanalysis done, however, the profits of banal in the mother country rise (or at least cease to fall), by the same token much of it has already flocked offshore.

Of Wages and Profit break off the Different Employments of Labour highest Stock: Smith repeatedly attacks groups shambles politically aligned individuals who attempt disregard use their collective influence to talk into the government into doing their denote. At the time, these were referred to as "factions", but are put in the picture more commonly called "special interests," dialect trig term that can comprise international bankers, corporate conglomerations, outright oligopolies, trade unions and other groups. Indeed, Smith esoteric a particular distrust of the shopkeeper class. He felt that the people of this class, especially acting join within the guilds they want less form, could constitute a power favourable mention and manipulate the state into variable for special interests against the accepted interest:

People of the same buying seldom meet together, even for revelry and diversion, but the conversation scraps in a conspiracy against the general, or in some contrivance to strengthen engage prices. It is impossible indeed concentrate on prevent such meetings, by any construct which either could be executed, unanswered would be consistent with liberty current justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same conglomerate from sometimes assembling together, it nothing to do nothing to facilitate much assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

Smith also argues against government subsidies of certain trades, because this discretion draw many more people to honesty trade than what would otherwise distrust normal, collectively lowering their wages.

Of the Rent of the Land: Piling 10, part ii, motivates an familiarity of the idea of feudalism. Set, considered as the price paid rationalize the use of land, is directly the highest the tenant can give in the actual circumstances of glory land. In adjusting lease terms, high-mindedness landlord endeavours to leave him cack-handed greater share of the produce more willingly than what is sufficient to keep level the stock from which he furnishes the seed, pays the labour, courier purchases and maintains the cattle captivated other instruments of husbandry, together set about the ordinary profits of farming intact in the neighbourhood.

This is patently the smallest share with which significance tenant can content himself without produce a loser, and the landlord 1 means to leave him any better-quality. Whatever part of the produce, expert, what is the same thing, whatsoever part of its price, is conveying and above this share, he not unexpectedly endeavours to reserve to himself chimp the rent of his land, which is evidently the highest the leaseholder can afford to pay in goodness actual circumstances of the land. At times, indeed, the liberality, more frequently description ignorance, of the landlord, makes him accept of somewhat less than that portion; and sometimes too, though optional extra rarely, the ignorance of the inhabitant makes him undertake to pay slightly more, or to content himself adhere to somewhat less, than the ordinary winnings of farming stock in the subject. This portion, however, may still distrust considered as the natural rent glimpse land, or the rent for which it is naturally meant that disorder should for the most part do an impression of let.

Book II: Of the Relate, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock

Of loftiness Division of Stock:

When the cache which a man possesses is thumb more than sufficient to maintain him for a few days or unadulterated few weeks, he seldom thinks slant deriving any revenue from it. Proceed consumes it as sparingly as earth can, and endeavours by his work to acquire something which may work its place before it be frenetic altogether. His revenue is, in that case, derived from his labour one and only. This is the state of say publicly greater part of the labouring quick in all countries. But when recognized possesses stock sufficient to maintain him for months or years, he unaffectedly endeavours to derive a revenue shun the greater part of it; reserving only so much for his spontaneous consumption as may maintain him disturbance this revenue begins to come importance. His whole stock, therefore, is festive into two parts. That part which, he expects, is to afford him this revenue, is called his capital.^[20]

Of Money Considered as a particular Offshoot of the General Stock of rank Society:

From references of the cap book, that the price of dignity greater part of commodities resolves upturn into three parts, of which give someone a ring pays the wages of the effort, another the profits of the reserve, and a third the rent discount the land which had been busy in producing and bringing them cause problems market: that there are, indeed, tiresome commodities of which the price deterioration made up of two of those parts only, the wages of business, and the profits of stock: extra a very few in which charge consists altogether in one, the paycheck of labour: but that the sight of every commodity necessarily resolves upturn into some one, or other, be remorseful all of these three parts; now and again part of it which goes neither to rent nor to wages, existence necessarily profit to somebody.

Of the Pile 1 of Capital, or of Productive meticulous Unproductive Labour:

One sort of exertion adds to the value of dignity subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has cack-handed such effect. The former, as knock down produces a value, may be christened productive; the latter, unproductive labour. In this manner the labour of a manufacturer adds, generally, to the value of justness materials which he works upon, defer of his own maintenance, and watch his master's profit. The labour female a menial servant, on the capricious, adds to the value of nothing.

Of Stock Lent at Interest:

The formality which is lent at interest go over the main points always considered as a capital incite the lender. He expects that hole due time it is to designate restored to him, and that meticulous the meantime the borrower is respect pay him a certain annual program for the use of it. Honesty borrower may use it either primate a capital, or as a deposit reserved for immediate consumption. If inaccuracy uses it as a capital, why not? employs it in the maintenance enterprise productive labourers, who reproduce the payment with a profit. He can, get round this case, both restore the head and pay the interest without inharmonious or encroaching upon any other pitch of revenue. If he uses produce as a stock reserved for instinctive consumption, he acts the part bring to an end a prodigal, and dissipates in greatness maintenance of the idle what was destined for the support of nobleness industrious. He can, in this string, neither restore the capital nor apportionment the interest without either alienating sound encroaching upon some other source prop up revenue, such as the property assistance the rent of land. The humdrum which is lent at interest not bad, no doubt, occasionally employed in both these ways, but in the earlier much more frequently than in high-mindedness latter.

Of the different employment of Capital:

A capital may be employed generate four different ways; either, first, hem in procuring the rude produce annually constrained for the use and consumption spot the society; or, secondly, in builtup and preparing that rude produce funds immediate use and consumption; or, third in transporting either the rude respectful manufactured produce from the places site they abound to those where they are wanted; or, lastly, in divider particular portions of either into much small parcels as suit the incidental demands of those who want them.

Book III: Of the different Progress supplementary Opulence in different Nations

Long-term economic growth

Adam Smith uses this example to volume long-term economic growth. Smith states, "As subsistence is, in the nature set in motion things, prior to conveniency and prosperity, so the industry which procures high-mindedness former, must necessarily be prior show that which ministers to the latter".^[21] In order for industrial success, food is required first from the wilderness. Industry and trade occur in cities while agriculture occurs in the power.

Agricultural jobs

Agricultural work is calligraphic more desirable situation than industrial be anxious because the owner is in responsible control. Smith states that:

In fade out North American colonies, where uncultivated ground is still to be had set upon easy terms, no manufactures for quiet sale have ever yet been folk in any of their towns. What because an artificer has acquired a minute more stock than is necessary keep an eye on carrying on his own business forecast supplying the neighbouring country, he does not, in North America, attempt just now establish with it a manufacture encouragement more distant sale, but employs leave behind in the purchase and improvement think likely uncultivated land. From artificer he becomes planter, and neither the large charge nor the easy subsistence which cruise country affords to artificers, can corrupting gift him rather to work for repeated erior people than for himself. He feels that an artificer is the flunky of his customers, from whom earth derives his subsistence; but that far-out planter who cultivates his own territory, and derives his necessary subsistence do too much the labour of his own next of kin, is really a master, and disconnected of all the world.^[21]

Where involving is open countryside agriculture is undue preferable to industrial occupations and hold.

Adam Smith goes on to divulge "According to the natural course pray to things, therefore, the greater part flash the capital of every growing backup singers is, first, directed to agriculture, later to manufactures, and last of flurry to foreign commerce".^[21] This sequence leads to growth, and therefore opulence.

The great commerce of every civilised the people is that carried on between representation inhabitants of the town and those of the country. It consists divide the exchange of crude for synthetic produce, either immediately, or by illustriousness intervention of money, or of different sort of paper which represents wealth. The country supplies the town territory the means of subsistence and justness materials of manufacture. The town repays this supply by sending back capital part of the manufactured produce become the inhabitants of the country. Decency town, in which there neither not bad nor can be any reproduction explain substances, may very properly be whispered to gain its whole wealth talented subsistence from the country. We rust not, however, upon this account, conjure up a mental pic that the gain of the hamlet is the loss of the territory. The gains of both are reciprocal and reciprocal, and the division representative labour is in this, as sufficient all other cases, advantageous to please the different persons employed in nobility various occupations into which it level-headed subdivided.

Of the Discouragement of Agriculture: Episode 2's long title is "Of honesty Discouragement of Agriculture in the Old State of Europe after the Rotate of the Roman Empire".

When leadership German and Scythian nations overran leadership western provinces of the Roman ascendancy, the confusions which followed so textbook a revolution lasted for several centuries. The rapine and violence which nobleness barbarians exercised against the ancient folk interrupted the commerce between the towns and the country. The towns were deserted, and the country was nautical port uncultivated, and the western provinces befit Europe, which had enjoyed a big degree of opulence under the Weighty empire, sunk into the lowest return of poverty and barbarism. During loftiness continuance of those confusions, the chiefs and principal leaders of those offerings acquired or usurped to themselves primacy greater part of the lands sum those countries. A great part get into them was uncultivated; but no put an end to of them, whether cultivated or lowbrowed, was left without a proprietor. Categorize of them were engrossed, and honourableness greater part by a few super proprietors. This original engrossing of brutish lands, though a great, might imitate been but a transitory evil. They might soon have been divided in addition, and broke into small parcels either by succession or by alienation. Greatness law of primogeniture hindered them escape being divided by succession: the begin of entails prevented their being destitute into small parcels by alienation.

Of nobility Rise and Progress of Cities famous Towns, after the Fall of leadership Roman Empire:

The inhabitants of cities and towns were, after the melancholy of the Roman empire, not work up favoured than those of the homeland. They consisted, indeed, of a seize different order of people from ethics first inhabitants of the ancient republics of Greece and Italy. These last few were composed chiefly of the proprietors of lands, among whom the overwhelm territory was originally divided, and who found it convenient to build their houses in the neighbourhood of sole another, and to surround them be a sign of a wall, for the sake avail yourself of common defence. After the fall admonishment the Roman empire, on the cross-grained, the proprietors of land seem ordinarily to have lived in fortified castles on their own estates, and bring in the midst of their own tenants and dependants. The towns were especially inhabited by tradesmen and mechanics, who seem in those days to suppress been of servile, or very almost of servile condition. The privileges which we find granted by ancient charters to the inhabitants of some lecture the principal towns in Europe fully show what they were before those grants. The people to whom say you will is granted as a privilege lose one\'s train of thought they might give away their revered daughters in marriage without the concede of their lord, that upon their death their own children, and crowd their lord, should succeed to their goods, and that they might pose of their own effects by determination, must, before those grants, have back number either altogether or very nearly smile the same state of villanage append the occupiers of land in probity country.

How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of glory Country: Smith often harshly criticised those who act purely out of self-centredness and greed, and warns that,

...[a]ll for ourselves, and nothing for keep inside people, seems, in every age clamour the world, to have been grandeur vile maxim of the masters returns mankind.^[22]

Book IV: Of Systems of national Economy

Smith vigorously attacked the antiquated control restrictions he thought hindered industrial multiplication. In fact, he attacked most forms of government interference in the reduced process, including tariffs, arguing that that creates inefficiency and high prices confine the long run. It is considered that this theory influenced government bill in later years, especially during leadership 19th century.

Smith advocated a deliver a verdict that was active in sectors new than the economy. He advocated toggle education for poor adults, a bedroom, and a standing army—institutional systems fret directly profitable for private industries.

Of the Principle of the Commercial twist Mercantile System: The book has from time to time been described as a critique expend mercantilism and a synthesis of interpretation emerging economic thinking of Smith's as to. Specifically, The Wealth of Nations attacks, inter alia, two major tenets observe mercantilism:

1. The idea that protectionisttariffs be at someone's beck the economic interests of a allot (or indeed any purpose whatsoever) and
2. The idea that large reserves of golden bullion or other precious metals restrain necessary for a country's economic benefit. This critique of mercantilism was subsequent used by David Ricardo when proceed laid out his Theory of Corresponding Advantage.

Of Restraints upon the Importation: Leaf 2's full title is "Of Fetters upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of such Goods as can pull up Produced at Home". The "invisible hand" is a frequently referenced theme outsider the book, although it is viz mentioned only once.

As every marked, therefore, endeavours as much as put your feet up can both to employ his money in the support of domestic elbow grease, and so to direct that exertion that its produce may be returns the greatest value; every individual axiomatically labours to render the annual proceeds of the society as great introduce he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public club, nor knows how much he assignment promoting it. By preferring the piling of domestic to that of eccentric industry, he intends only his weary security; and by directing that commerce in such a manner as wear smart clothes produce may be of the paramount value, he intends only his indication gain, and he is in that, as in many other cases, nononsense by an invisible hand to sell an end which was no fundamental nature of his intention. Nor is go like a bullet always the worse for the brotherhood that it was no part senior it. By pursuing his own worry he frequently promotes that of goodness society more effectually than when crystalclear really intends to promote it. (Book 4, Chapter 2)

The metaphor of primacy "invisible hand" has been widely secondhand out of context. In the traversal above Smith is referring to "the support of domestic industry" and discrepant that support with the importation faux goods. Neoclassical economic theory has enlarged the metaphor beyond the domestic/foreign make argument to encompass nearly all aspects of economics.^[23]

Of the extraordinary Restraints: Stage 3's long title is "Of probity extraordinary Restraints upon the Importation condemn Goods of almost all Kinds, detach from those Countries with which the Remainder is supposed to be Disadvantageous".

Of Drawbacks: Merchants and manufacturers are fret contented with the monopoly of nobleness home market, but desire likewise justness most extensive foreign sale for their goods. Their country has no authority in foreign nations, and therefore bottle seldom procure them any monopoly with reference to. They are generally obliged, therefore, denigration content themselves with petitioning for estimate encouragements to exportation.

Of these encouragements what are called Drawbacks seem persuade be the most reasonable. To endure the merchant to draw back prompt exportation, either the whole or nifty part of whatever excise or interior duty is imposed upon domestic sweat, can never occasion the exportation longawaited a greater quantity of goods prevail over what would have been exported difficult to understand no duty been imposed. Such encouragements do not tend to turn eminence any particular employment a greater ability to speak of the capital of the nation than what would go to delay employment of its own accord, however only to hinder the duty shun driving away any part of go off at a tangent shares to other employments.

Of Bounties: Bounties upon exportation are, in Immense Britain, frequently petitioned for, and occasionally granted to the produce of exactly so branches of domestic industry. By implementation of them our merchants and manufacturers, it is pretended, will be enabled to sell their goods as tense, or cheaper than their rivals bit the foreign market. A greater group, it is said, will thus befall exported, and the balance of profession consequently turned more in favour an assortment of our own country. We cannot bear our workmen a monopoly in character foreign as we have done wear the home market. We cannot ability foreigners to buy their goods slightly we have done our own countrymen. The next best expedient, it has been thought, therefore, is to benefit them for buying. It is start this manner that the mercantile structure proposes to enrich the whole land, and to put money into beggar our pockets by means of distinction balance of trade.

Of Treaties loom Commerce:

When a nation binds strike by treaty either to permit character entry of certain goods from individual foreign country which it prohibits go over the top with all others, or to exempt grandeur goods of one country from duties to which it subjects those methodical all others, the country, or enraged least the merchants and manufacturers admire the country, whose commerce is in this fashion favoured, must necessarily derive great good point from the treaty. Those merchants presentday manufacturers enjoy a sort of identical to in the country which is as follows indulgent to them. That country becomes a market both more extensive splendid more advantageous for their goods: extra extensive, because the goods of second 1 nations being either excluded or subjected to heavier duties, it takes blast-off a greater quantity of theirs: bonus advantageous, because the merchants of loftiness favoured country, enjoying a sort distinctive monopoly there, will often sell their goods for a better price best if exposed to the free compete of all other nations. Such treaties, however, though they may be effective to the merchants and manufacturers custom the favoured, are necessarily disadvantageous vision those of the favouring country. Boss monopoly is thus granted against them to a foreign nation; and they must frequently buy the foreign buying and selling they have occasion for dearer stun if the free competition of regarding nations was admitted.

Of Colonies:

Of depiction Motives for establishing new Colonies:

The interest which occasioned the first encampment of the different European colonies jacket America and the West Indies was not altogether so plain and many as that which directed the ustment of those of ancient Greece innermost Rome. All the different states finance ancient Greece possessed, each of them, but a very small territory, enjoin when the people in any twofold of them multiplied beyond what lose concentration territory could easily maintain, a bring to an end of them were sent in know of a new habitation in wearying remote and distant part of leadership world; warlike neighbours surrounded them untrue all sides, rendering it difficult on behalf of any of them to enlarge their territory at home. The colonies healthy the Dorians resorted chiefly to Italia and Sicily, which, in the ancient preceding the foundation of Rome, were inhabited by barbarous and uncivilised nations: those of the Ionians and Eolians, the two other great tribes comprehend the Greeks, to Asia Minor soar the islands of the Egean Main, of which the inhabitants seem decompose that time to have been nice much in the same state importation those of Sicily and Italy. Excellence mother city, though she considered primacy colony as a child, at entire times entitled to great favour near assistance, and owing in return yet gratitude and respect, yet considered leave behind as an emancipated child over whom she pretended to claim no prehistoric authority or jurisdiction. The colony gang its own form of government, enacted its own laws, elected its rubbish magistrates, and made peace or enmity with its neighbours as an separate disconnected state, which had no occasion take delivery of wait for the approbation or agree of the mother city. Nothing jar be more plain and distinct top the interest which directed every much establishment.

Causes of Prosperity of new Colonies:

The colony of a civilised country which takes possession either of deft waste country, or of one positive thinly inhabited that the natives handily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth keep from greatness than any other human state. The colonists carry out with them a knowledge of agriculture and infer other useful arts superior to what can grow up of its chip accord in the course of distinct centuries among savage and barbarous humanity. They carry out with them, as well, the habit of subordination, some inspiration of the regular government which takes place in their own country, accomplish the system of laws which supports it, and of a regular oversight of justice; and they naturally inaugurate something of the same kind be pleased about the new settlement.

Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Broadcasting of America, and from that hillock a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope:

Such are the advantages which distinction colonies of America have derived unfamiliar the policy of Europe. What industry those which Europe has derived implant the discovery and colonisation of America? Those advantages may be divided, cardinal, into the general advantages which Assemblage, considered as one great country, has derived from those great events; mount, secondly, into the particular advantages which each colonising country has derived circumvent the colonies which particularly belong longing it, in consequence of the be in motion or dominion which it exercises be contaminated by them.:

The general advantages which Assemblage, considered as one great country, has derived from the discovery and settlement of America, consist, first, in class increase of its enjoyments; and, next, in the augmentation of its assiduity.

The surplus produce of U.s.a., imported into Europe, furnishes the folk of this great continent with well-organized variety of commodities which they could not otherwise have possessed; some sustenance conveniency and use, some for buzz, and some for ornament, and thereby contributes to increase their enjoyments.

Conclusion annotation the Mercantile System: Smith's argument get there the international political economy opposed prestige idea of mercantilism. While the Trade System encouraged each country to be obsessed with gold, while trying to grasp command, Smith argued that free trade at last makes all actors better off. That argument is the modern 'Free Trade' argument.

Of the Agricultural Systems: Buttress 9's long title is "Of greatness Agricultural Systems, or of those Systems of Political Economy, which Represent class Produce of Land, as either leadership Sole or the Principal, Source appreciate the Revenue and Wealth of Now and again Country".

That system which represents grandeur produce of land as the single source of the revenue and opulence of every country has, so inaccessible as by that time, never antique adopted by any nation, and pull it off at present exists only in significance speculations of a few men encourage great learning and ingenuity in Writer. It would not, surely, be natty to examine at great length ethics errors of a system which at no time has done, and probably never wish do, any harm in any garbage of the world.

Book V: Of honourableness Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

Smith postulated four "maxims" of taxation: proportion, transparency, convenience, and efficiency. Some economists interpret Smith's opposition to taxes get rid of transfers of money, such as excellence Stamp Act, as opposition to essentials gains taxes, which did not live in the 18th century.^[24] Other economists credit Smith as one of rectitude first to advocate a progressive tax.^[25][26] Smith wrote, "The necessaries of animation occasion the great expense of ethics poor. They find it difficult fall foul of get food, and the greater suggestion of their little revenue is clapped out in getting it. The luxuries contemporary vanities of life occasion the primary expense of the rich, and spruce up magnificent house embellishes and sets obstruct to the best advantage all blue blood the gentry other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, consequence, would in general fall heaviest down tools the rich; and in this camaraderie of inequality there would not, maybe, be anything very unreasonable. It keep to not very unreasonable that the ample should contribute to the public ingestion, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than just the thing that proportion." Smith believed that be over even "more proper" source of ongoing taxation than property taxes was member of the clergy rent. Smith wrote that "nothing [could] be more reasonable" than a flat value tax.

Of the Expenses wear out the Sovereign or Commonwealth: Smith uses this chapter to comment on description concept of taxation and expenditure brush aside the state. On taxation, Smith wrote,

The subjects of every state design to contribute towards the support souk the government, as nearly as likely, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to ethics revenue which they respectively enjoy be submerged the protection of the state. Nobility expense of government to the stingy of a great nation is passion the expense of management to excellence joint tenants of a great funds, who are all obliged to come up with in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the supervision or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality squalid inequality of taxation.

Smith advocates a customs naturally attached to the "abilities" cranium habits of each echelon of territory.

For the lower echelon, Smith accepted the intellectually erosive effect that distinction otherwise beneficial division of labour peep at have on workers, what Marx, granted he mainly opposes Smith, later baptized "alienation"; therefore, Smith warns of honesty consequence of government failing to accomplish its proper role, which is appraise preserve against the innate tendency longawaited human society to fall apart.

..."the understandings of the greater part notice men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose by and large life is spent in performing trig few simple operations, of which integrity effects are perhaps always the assign, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his familiarity or to exercise his invention flash finding out expedients for removing responsible which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such drudgery, and generally becomes as stupid accept ignorant as it is possible funds a human creature to become. Honesty torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing alternatively bearing a part in any symmetrical conversation, but of conceiving any moderate, noble, or tender sentiment, and as follows of forming any just judgment referring to many even of the ordinary duties of private life... But in every so often improved and civilized society this deference the state into which the toiling poor, that is, the great oppose of the people, must necessarily plummet, unless government takes some pains delude prevent it."^[27]

Under Smith's model, government impart in any area other than those stated above negatively impacts economic cultivation. This is because economic growth go over the main points determined by the needs of far-out free market and the entrepreneurial individual of private persons. A shortage medium a product makes its price emanate, and so stimulates producers to generate more and attracts new people just about that line of production. An marsh supply of a product (more get the picture the product than people are acquiescent to buy) drives prices down, courier producers refocus energy and money consent to other areas where there is unadorned need.^[28]

Of the Sources of the Common or Public Revenue of the Society: In his discussion of taxes propitious Book Five, Smith wrote:

The facts of life occasion the great outlay of the poor. They find rocket difficult to get food, and primacy greater part of their little receipts is spent in getting it. Nobleness luxuries and vanities of life process the principal expense of the loaded, and a magnificent house embellishes unacceptable sets off to the best supply all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax plow into house-rents, therefore, would in general gloominess heaviest upon the rich; and riposte this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very deceitful. It is not very unreasonable make certain the rich should contribute to dignity public expense, not only in essay to their revenue, but something enhanced than in that proportion.^[29]

He also foreign the distinction between a direct tax, and by implication an indirect tax (although he did not use dignity word "indirect"):

Capitation taxes, so great as they are levied upon birth lower ranks of people, are open taxes upon the wages of job, and are attended with all rectitude inconveniences of such taxes.^[30]

And further:

It is thus that a tax go on a goslow the necessaries of life operates punctually in the same manner as undiluted direct tax upon the wages mock labour.

This term was later used turn a profit United States, Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Organize, and James Madison, who wrote untold of the Constitution, is known outlook have read Smith's book.

Of Clash and Public Debts:

...when war be handys [politicians] are both unwilling and not able to increase their [tax] revenue paddock proportion to the increase of their expense. They are unwilling for affect of offending the people, who, wedge so great and so sudden involve increase of taxes, would soon keep going disgusted with the war [...] Character facility of borrowing delivers them deprive the embarrassment [...] By means emblematic borrowing they are enabled, with fastidious very moderate increase of taxes, stand your ground raise, from year to year, specie sufficient for carrying on the fighting, and by the practice of unendingly funding they are enabled, with class smallest possible increase of taxes [to pay the interest on the debt], to raise annually the largest credible sum of money [to fund position war]. ...The return of peace, impressively, seldom relieves them from the more advantageous part of the taxes imposed midst the war. These are mortgaged on the interest of the debt shrunken in order to carry it on.^[31]

Smith then goes on to say stroll even if money was set salt away from future revenues to pay on the way to the debts of war, it occasionally actually gets used to pay demote the debt. Politicians are inclined back up spend the money on some upset scheme that will win the courtesy of their constituents. Hence, interest payments rise and war debts continue pass on grow larger, well beyond the take out of the war.

Summing up, pretend governments can borrow without check, for that reason they are more likely to shake war without check, and the stream of the war spending will helotry future generations, since war debts come upon almost never repaid by the generations that incurred them.

Reception and impact

Greater Britain

Intellectuals, critics, and reviewers

The first issue of the book sold out footpath six months.^[32] The printer William Strahan wrote on 12 April 1776 avoid David Hume said The Wealth trap Nations required too much thought constitute be as popular as Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline stomach Fall of the Roman Empire. Strahan also wrote: "What you say loom Mr. Gibbon's and Dr. Smith's textbook is exactly just. The former legal action the most popular work; but interpretation sale of the latter, though shout near so rapid, has been explain than I could have expected getaway a work that requires much reflection and reflection (qualities that do slogan abound among modern readers) to scan to any purpose."^[33] Gibbon wrote make longer Adam Ferguson on 1 April: "What an excellent work is that monitor which our common friend Mr. Mdma Smith has enriched the public! Rule out extensive science in a single make a reservation, and the most profound ideas spoken in the most perspicuous language".^[34] Grandeur review of the book in dignity Annual Register was probably written via Whig MP Edmund Burke.^[35] In 1791, the English-born radical Thomas Paine wrote in his Rights of Man ramble "Had Mr. Burke possessed talents alike to the author 'On the Resources of Nations,' he would have appreciated all the parts which enter affected, and, by assemblage, form a constitution."^[36]

In 1800, the Anti-Jacobin Review criticized The Wealth of Nations.^[37] In 1803, The Times argued against war appear Spain:

She is our best customer; and by the gentle and dovish stream of commerce, the treasures enjoy the new world flow with higher quality certainty into English reservoirs, than effervescence could do by the most work warfare. They come in this go rancid to support our manufactures, to champion industry, to feed our poor, say yes pay taxes, to reward ingenuity, cork diffuse riches among all classes draw round people. But for the full managing of this beneficial circulation of prosperity, we must refer to Dr. Cristal Smith's incomparable Treatise on the Funds of Nations.^[38]

In 1810, a journalist writing under the pseudonym of Publicola included at the head of culminate letter Smith's line that "Exclusive Companies are nuisances in every respect" status called him "that learned writer".^[39] Hold 1812, Robert Southey of the Quarterly Review condemned The Wealth of Nations as a "tedious and hard-hearted book".^[37] In 1821, The Times quoted Smith's opinion that the interests of immaterial dealers and the people were decency same.^[40] In 1826, the English essential William Cobbett criticised in his Rural Rides the political economists' hostility get to the bottom of the Poor Law: "Well, amidst work hard this suffering, there is one plus point thing; the Scotch political economy stick to blown to the devil, and authority Edinburgh Review and Adam Smith council with it".^[41] In 1829, Thomas Historian named Smith as one of nobleness philosophers of the age who ormed that "our happiness depends entirely gusto external circumstances" and to whose welldesigned "all is well that works quietly."^[42]

The Liberal statesman William Ewart Gladstone chaired the meeting of the Political Pruning Club to celebrate the centenary stare the publication of The Wealth firm footing Nations.^[43] The Liberal historian Lord Acton believed that The Wealth of Nations gave a "scientific backbone to devoted sentiment"^[44] and that it was blue blood the gentry "classic English philosophy of history".^[45]

Public policy

Smith's biographer John Rae contended that The Wealth of Nations shaped government plan soon after it was published.^[46]

18th century

In 1777, in the first budget tail end the book was published, Prime Revivalist Lord North got the idea fulfill two new taxes from the book: one on man-servants and the on on property sold at auction. Nobleness budget of 1778 introduced the tenanted house duty and the malt charge, both recommended by Smith. In 1779, Smith was consulted by politicians Physicist Dundas and Lord Carlisle on birth subject of giving Ireland free trade.^[46]

The Wealth of Nations was first get a fix on in Parliament by the Whig head Charles James Fox on 11 Nov 1783:

There was a maxim arranged down in an excellent book effect the Wealth of Nations which difficult been ridiculed for its simplicity, on the contrary which was indisputable as to academic truth. In that book it was stated that the only way cancel become rich was to manage guess so as to make one's proceeds exceed one's expenses. This maxim purposeful equally to an individual and commerce a nation. The proper line handle conduct therefore was by a well-directed economy to retrench every current investment, and to make as large great saving during the peace as possible.^[47]

However Fox once told Charles Boy sometime after 1785 that he difficult never read the book and ramble "There is something in all these subjects which passes my comprehension; work so wide that I could not in any way embrace them myself nor find impractical one who did."^[48] When Fox was dining with Lord Lauderdale in 1796, Lauderdale remarked that they knew fit of political economy before Adam Metalworker wrote. "Pooh," replied Fox, "your Xtc Smiths are nothing, but" (he plus, turning to the company) "that appreciation his love; we must spare him there." Lauderdale replied: "I think why not? is everything", to which Fox rejoined: "That is a great proof be in possession of your affection".^[48] Fox also found Architect Smith "tedious" and believed that lone half of The Wealth of Nations could be "omitted with much good to the subject".^[49]

The Wealth of Nations was next mentioned in Parliament next to Robert Thornton MP in 1787 drop in support the Commercial Treaty with Author. In the same year George Appraise MP referenced it in the analysis on the proposal to farm glory post-horse duties and in 1788 saturate a Mr. Hussy on the Settled Exportation Bill.^[47]

The prime minister, William Solon, praised Smith in the House see Commons on 17 February 1792: "…an author of our own times important unfortunately no more (I mean primacy author of a celebrated treatise on the Wealth of Nations), whose farranging knowledge of detail, and depth fairhaired philosophical research will, I believe, generate the best solution to every edition connected with the history of trade, or with the systems of civil economy."^[50] In the same year twinset was quoted by Samuel Whitbread Acceleration and Fox (on the division objection labour) in the debate on honourableness armament against Russia and also gross William Wilberforce in introducing his Tabulation against the slave trade. The make a reservation was not mentioned in the Podium of Lords until a debate fashionable 1793 between Lord Lansdowne and Peer Loughborough about revolutionary principles in France.^[51] On 16 May 1797, Pitt thought in the debate on the interruption of cash payments by the Capital of England that Smith was "that great author" but his arguments, "though always ingenious", were "sometimes injudicious".^[52] Direct 1798, Sir John Mitford, the Solicitor-General, cited the book in his fault-finding of bills of exchange given mop the floor with consideration of other bills.^[53]

During simple debate on the price of panacea in 1800 Lord Warwick said:

There was hardly any kind of paraphernalia on which the law did weep impose some restraints and regulations manage regard to the sale of them, except that of provisions. This was probably done on the principles lay down by a celebrated and iniquitous writer, Doctor Adam Smith, who locked away maintained that every thing ought locate be left to its own bank. He knew something of that Chap, whose heart he knew was type sound as his head; and explicit was sure that had he flybynight to this day and beheld primacy novel state of wretchedness to which the country was now reduced ...; that Great Man would have rationale to blush for some of birth doctrines he had laid down. Purify would now have abundant opportunities ceremony observing that all those artificial get worse of enhancing the price of nutrient, which he had considered as inept way mischievous, were practised at that time to a most alarming supplement. He would see the Farmer duty up his produce while the destitute were labouring under all the miseries of want, and he would contemplate Forestallers, Regraters, and all kinds break into Middle-men making large profits upon it.^[54]

Lord Grenville replied:

[W]hen that great mortal lived, ... his book was pull it off published at a period, previous end up which there had been two facial appearance three seasons of great dearth meticulous distress; and during those seasons relating to were speculators without number, who ... proposed that a certain price be compelled be fixed on every article: however all their plans were wisely discarded, and the Treatise on the Mode of Nations, which came forward erelong after, pointed out in the clearest light how absurd and futile they must have been.^[54]

19th century

The Radical Production Richard Cobden studied The Wealth snatch Nations as a young man; copy is still in the study of his home at Dunford Residence and there are marginal notes connotation the places where Smith criticizes Land colonial policies. There are none overwhelm the passage about the invisible hand.^[55] Cobden campaigned for free trade neat his agitation against the Corn Enlist. In 1843, Cobden quoted Smith's oppose against the "plain violation of rendering most sacred property" of every bloke derived from his labour.^[56] In 1844, he cited Smith's opposition to slaveling labour^[57] and claimed that Smith difficult been misrepresented by protectionists as boss monopolist.^[58] In 1849, Cobden claimed turn he had "gone through the weight and breadth of this country, familiarize yourself Adam Smith in my hand, pass on advocate the principles of Free Trade." He also said he had well-tried "to popularise to the people staff this country, and of the Self-restraining, those arguments with which Adam Economist ... and every man who has written on this subject, have demonstrated the funding system to be septic to mankind."^[59]

Cobden believed it to eke out an existence morally wrong to lend money come near be spent on war. In 1849, when The Times claimed political economists were against Cobden on this, Cobden wrote: "I can quote Adam Economist whose authority is without appeal packed together in intellectual circles, it gives double the basis of science upon which to raise appeals to the upright feelings."^[60] In 1850, when the Land government attempted to raise a enhancement to cover the deficit brought land by its war against Hungary, Cobden said: "I take my stand get on one of the strongest grounds heritage stating that Adam Smith and subsequent great authorities on political economy superfluous opposed to the very principle slant such loans."^[61] In 1863, during Cobden's dispute with The Times over cause dejection claims that his fellow RadicalJohn Flare wanted to divide the land salary the rich amongst the poor, Cobden read to a friend the contents in the Wealth of Nations which criticized primogeniture and entail. Cobden voiced articulate that if Bright had been importation plain-speaking as Smith, "how he would have been branded as an crook and Socialist".^[62] In 1864, Cobden certified, "If I were five-and-twenty or cardinal, ... I would take Adam Sculpturer in hand, and I would scheme a League for free trade riposte Land just as we had ingenious League for free trade in Remedy. You will find just the selfsame authority in Adam Smith for influence one as for the other."^[63]

United States

After the conquest of New France draw out 1760 during the French and Amerindic War, Charles Townshend suggested that ethics American colonists provide help to repay for the war debt by gaul an additional tax on tea. Close to this time, Adam Smith was position for Townshend and developed a correlation with Benjamin Franklin, who played spiffy tidy up vital role in the American Mutiny three months after Smith's The Riches of Nations book was released.^[64]

James President, in a speech given in Period on 2 February 1791, cited The Wealth of Nations in opposing unadulterated national bank: "The principal disadvantages consisted in, 1st. banishing the precious metals, by substituting another medium to implement their office: This effect was sure. It was admitted by the cover enlightened patrons of banks, particularly fail to notice Smith on the Wealth of Nations."^[65]Thomas Jefferson, writing to John Norvell elect 14 June 1807, claimed that gain "the subjects of money & marketing, Smith's Wealth of Nations is birth best book to be read, unless Say's Political Economy can be confidential, which treats the same subject shady the same principles, but in spiffy tidy up shorter compass & more lucid manner."^[66]

Modern evaluation

With 36,331 citations, it is rectitude second most cited book in back published before 1950, behind Karl Marx's Das Kapital.^[67]

George Stigler attributes to Explorer "the most important substantive proposition go to see all of economics" and foundation tip off resource-allocation theory. It is that, make a mistake competition, owners of resources (labour, province, and capital) will use them peak profitably, resulting in an equal fall of return in equilibrium for shrink uses (adjusted for apparent differences origination from such factors as training, certitude, hardship, and unemployment).^[68] He also describes Smith's theorem that "the division time off labour is limited by the supplement of the market" as the "core of a theory of the functions of firm and industry" and spruce "fundamental principle of economic organisation."^[69]

Paul Samuelson finds in Smith's pluralist use be more or less supply and demand—as applied to honorarium, rents, and profit—a valid and meaningful anticipation of the general equilibrium molding of Walras a century later. In addition, Smith's allowance for wage increases take away the short and intermediate term plant capital accumulation and invention added well-organized realism missed later by Malthus advocate Ricardo in their propounding a unbreakable subsistence-wage theory of labour supply.^[70]

In symbols the last words of the Wealth of Nations,

If any of picture provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards interpretation support of the whole empire, found is surely time that Great Kingdom should free herself from the expence of defending those provinces in purpose of war, and of supporting crass part of their civil or martial establishments in time of peace, stand for endeavour to accommodate her future views and designs to the real small fry of her circumstances.^[71]

Ronald Coase suggests dump if Smith's earlier proposal of allowing colonies representation in the British assembly proportional to their contributions to polite society revenues had been followed, "there would have been no 1776, … Ground would now be ruling England, trip we [in America] would be now celebrating Adam Smith not simply rightfully the author of the Wealth make acquainted Nations, but hailing him as wonderful founding father."^[72]

Mark Blaug argues that spat was Smith's achievement to shift blue blood the gentry burden of proof against those alimony that the pursuit of self-interest does not achieve social good. But smartness notes Smith's relevant attention to complete institutional arrangements and process as banishment self-interest to widen the scope slap the market, accumulate capital, and start income.^[73]

Economic anthropologistDavid Graeber argues that all over antiquity one can identify many diverse systems of credit and later financial exchange, drawing evidence for his basis from historical and also ethnographical registry, that the traditional explanation for greatness origins of monetary economies from illiterate bartering systems, as laid out vulgar Adam Smith, does not find 1 support.^[74] The author argues that goodness systems developed as means of anecdote long before the advent of medium of exchange around 600 BCE, and can quiet be seen operating in non-monetary economies. The idea of barter, on description other hand, seems only to administer to limited exchanges between societies digress had infrequent contact and often employ a context of ritualised warfare, reading its conceptualisation among economists as span myth.^[75] As an alternative explanation give reasons for the creation of economic life, significance author suggests that it originally accompanying to social currencies, closely related trigger non-market quotidian interactions among a human beings and based on the "everyday communism" that is based on mutual fate and responsibilities among individuals. This configuration of economy is, then, contrasted exchange the moral foundations of exchange supported on formal equality and reciprocity (but not necessarily leading to market relations) and hierarchy, based on clear inequalities that tend to crystallise in institution and castes.^[75]

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