Summary of the Book
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries
and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the
immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller
proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse
supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion.
