ty on the production of, productive of no real effect on the
annual produce of the land and labour of the country, 449-455.
The price of corn enhanced by a tax on it, in order to afford a fund
for a bounty on the production of commodities, 456, 457.
Benefit of a high price of corn to landlords, 474, 475.
Investigation of the comparative value of corn, gold, and labour, in
rich and in poor countries, 527-537.
The production of corn encouraged by alteration in its market price,
574, 575.
A fall in the value of corn beneficial to the stockholder, 586.

_Cultivation_, not discouraged by a tax on land and its produce, 238.

_Currency_. See _Gold_ and _Silver_, _Paper Currency_.

D.

_Demand_ and supply, influence of, on prices, considered, 542.
Opinion of M. Say on this subject, 544.
And of the Earl of Lauderdale, 545-547.
Observations thereon, 547, 548.

E.

_Economy_ in labour, reduces the relative value of commodities, 21.
Illustration of this principle, 22-42.

_Exchange_, no criterion of the increased value of money, 178.
To be ascertained by estimating the value of the currency in
the currency of another country, 181,
and also by comparing it with some standard common to both
countries, 181-184.
Effects of paper currency on exchange, 310-314.

_Exportation_ of corn, bounties on, lower its price to the foreign
consumer, 417-427.
Effects of, in raising the price of corn, illustrated, 428.
Bounties on the exportation of manufactures raise the market,
but not the natural, price of these, 436-438.

F.

_Farmers_ pay more poor-rate than the manufacturers, 359-362.

_Foreign Trade_, effects of an extension of, 146, 147.
Proofs that the profits of the favoured trade will speedily subside
to the general level, 148-154.

_Funded Property_, the price of, no steady criterion by which to
judge of the rate of interest, 413-415.

G.

_Gold_, and Silver, an insufficient medium for determining
the _variable_ value of commodities, 7, 8.
But, upon the whole, the least inconvenient standard
for money, 80, 81.
On whom a tax upon gold would ultimately fall, 249, 250.
The value of gold ultimately regulated by the comparative
facility or difficulty of producing it, 251.
Effects of a tax upon gold, 252-261.
Evils of prohibiting a