{"product_id":"2940016448138","title":"An Inquiry into the Permant Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eBOOK I.\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. I.\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION and plan of the work. — Explanation of what the author understands by wealthy and powerful nations, and of the general cause of wealth and power\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. II.\u003cbr\u003eOf the general causes that operate, both externally and internally, in bringing down nations that have risen above their level to that assigned to them by their extent, fertility, and population; and of the manner in which wealth destroyed power in ancient nations\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. III.\u003cbr\u003eOf the nations that rose to wealth and power previous to the conquests in Asia and Africa, and the causes which ruined them\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. IV.\u003cbr\u003eOf the Romans. — The causes of their rise under the republic, and of their decline under the emperors. — The great error generally fallen into with respect to the comparison between Rome and Carthage; proofs that it is wrong, and not at all applicable to France and England\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. V.\u003cbr\u003eOf the cities and nations that rose to wealth and power in the middle ages, after the fall of the Western Empire, and previous to the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of America. — Different effects of wealth on nations in cold and in warm climates, and of the fall of the Eastern Empire\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VI.\u003cbr\u003eDigression concerning the commerce with India. — This the only one that raised ancient nations to wealth. — Its continual variations. — The envy it excited, and revolutions it produced\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VII.\u003cbr\u003eOf the causes that brought on the decline of the nations that had flourished in the middle ages, and of Portugal, Spain, Holland, and the Hans Towns\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VIII.\u003cbr\u003eGeneral view and analysis of the causes that operated in producing the decline of all nations, with a chart, representing the rise, fall, and migrations of wealth, in all different countries, from the year 1500, before the birth of Christ, to the end of the eighteenth century, — a period of 3300 years\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK II.\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. I\u003cbr\u003eOf the interior causes of decline, arising from the possession of wealth. — Its general operation on the habits of life, manners, education, and ways of thinking and acting of the inhabitants of a country\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. II.\u003cbr\u003eOf the education of youth in nations increasing in wealth. — The errors generally committed by writers on that subject. — Importance of female education on the manners of a people. — Not noticed by writers on political economy. — Education of the great body of the people the chief object. — In what that consists\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. III.\u003cbr\u003eOf increased taxation, as an interior cause of decline. — Its different effects on industry, according to the degree to which it is carried. — Its effects on the people and on government\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. IV.\u003cbr\u003eOf the interior causes of decline, arising from the encroachments of public and privileged bodies; and of those who have a common interest on those who have no common interest\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. V.\u003cbr\u003eOf the internal causes of decline, arising from the unequal division of property, and its accumulation in the hands of particular persons. — Its effects on the employment of capital\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VI.\u003cbr\u003eOf the interior causes of decline, which arise from the produce of the soil becoming unequal to the sustenance of a luxurious people. — Of monopoly\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VII.\u003cbr\u003eOf the increase of the poor, as general affluence becomes greater. — Of children left unprovided for. — Of their division into two classes. — Those that can labour more or less, and those that can do no labour\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VIII.\u003cbr\u003eOf the tendency of capital and industry to leave a wealthy country, and of the depreciation of money in agricultural and commercial countries\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. IX.\u003cbr\u003eConclusion of the interior causes. — Their co-operation. — Their general effect on the government and on the people. — The danger arising from them does not appear till the progress in decline is far advanced\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. X.\u003cbr\u003eOf the external causes of decline. — The envy and enmity of other nations. — Their efforts, both in peace and war, to bring wealthy nations down to their level\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. XI.\u003cbr\u003eWhy the intercourse between nations is ultimately in favour of the poorer one, though not so at first\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. XII.\u003cbr\u003eConclusion of exterior causes. — Are seldom of much importance, unless favoured by interior ones. — Rich nations, with care, capable, in most cases, of prolonging their prosperity. — Digression on the importance of public revenue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK III.\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. I.\u003cbr\u003eResult of the foregoing Inquiry applied to Britain. — Its present state, in what its wealth consists\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. II.\u003cbr\u003eOf education, as conducted in England. — Amelioration proposed. — Necessity of government interfering, without touching the liberty of the subject\u003cbr\u003e...","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081615065328,"sku":"2940016448138","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016448138_p0.jpg?v=1763636103","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016448138","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}