Essays on Political Economy : In Which Are Illustrated the Principal Causes of the Present National Distress; With Appropriate Remedies (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essays on Political Economy: In Which Are Illustrated the Principal Causes of the Present National Distress; With Appropriate Remedies

National wealth may be defined as consisting of those material objects which are necessary, useful, or agreeable to mankind, and at the same time possess value in exchange. These objects are the produce of labour. The labour of every nation is the fund which supplies it with all the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries which it consumes, and these consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.

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