CHAP. V. Of the present state of public credit in Great 380 Britain, CHAP. VI. State of the public credit of France; their 402 debts, funds, and appropriations, at the peace 1763, CHAP. VII. Comparative view of the revenue, debts, and 438 credit of Great Britain and France, CHAP. VIII. Contingent consequences of the extension of 441 credit, and increase of debts, CHAP. IX. Of bankruptcies, 456 CHAP. X. Methods of contracting and paying off public 465 debts, BOOK V. Of Taxes, and of the proper application of their amount. INTRODUCTION, 482 CHAP. I. Of the different kinds of taxes, 484 CHAP. II. Of proportional taxes, and their proper object, 486 CHAP. III. How proportional taxes are drawn back by the 490 industrious; and how that drawing back is the only reason why taxes raise the prices of commodities, CHAP. IV. Of cumulative taxes, 495 CHAP. V. Of the inconveniences which proceed from 500 proportional taxes, and of the methods of removing them, CHAP. VI. Cumulative and proportional taxes compared with 517 one another, and farther examined, CHAP. VII. Consequences of taxes, when the amount of them 523 is properly applied, CHAP. VIII. Of the extent of taxation, 527 CHAP. IX. The consequences of an abolition of taxes, 542 CHAP. X. Are taxes a spur to industry, as some pretend? 556 CHAP. XI. Considerations upon land taxes, with some 561 observations upon those of England and France, CHAP. XII. Miscellaneous questions upon taxes, 577 CHAP. XIII. Recapitulation of the fourth book, 593 CHAP. XIV. Recapitulation of the fifth book, 637 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL OECONOMY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOOK III. OF MONEY AND COIN. PART II. THE PRINCIPLES OF MONEY APPLIED TO TRADE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAP. I. _Consequences of imposing the Price of Coinage, and the Duty of Seignorage upon the Coin of a Nation, so far as they affect the Price of Bullion, and that of all other Commodities._