Book IV, Chapter I
Attack on the mercantilist confusion of money with wealth.
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From The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Book IV is a sustained polemic against the mercantile system's conflation of wealth with gold and silver and its policies of trade restriction, bounties, and colonial monopolies.
Book IV, Chapter III
Critique of restraints on imports as products of merchant lobbying serving private monopoly, not the public good.
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'Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production'; producer interests have been wrongly preferred to consumer interests.
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