Economic Sophisms
by Frédéric Bastiat
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Contents
- Translator's Preface
- Introduction
- I. Abundance, Scarcity
- II. Obstacle, Cause
- III. Effort, Result
- IV. To Equalize the Conditions of Production
- V. Our Products Are Burdened with Taxes
- VI. Balance of Trade
- VII. Of the Manufacturers
- VIII. Differential Duties
- IX. Immense Discovery
- X. Reciprocity
- XI. Nominal Prices
- XII. Does Protection Raise the Rate of Wages?
- XIII. Theory, Practice
- XIV. Conflict of Principles
- XV. Reciprocity Again
- XVI. Obstructed Navigation Pleading for the Prohibitionists
- XVII. A Negative Railway
- XVIII. There Are No Absolute Principles
- XIX. National Independence
- XX. Human Labour, National Labour
- XXI. Raw Materials
- XXII. Metaphors
- Conclusion
- I. Physiology of Spoliation
- II. Two Principles of Morality
- III. The Two Hatchets
- IV. Lower Council of Labour
- V. Dearness-Cheapness
- VI. To Artisans and Workmen
- VII. A Chinese Story
- VIII. Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
- IX. The Premium Theft
- X. The Taxgatherer
- XI. The Utopian Free-Trader
- XII. The Salt-Tax, Rates of Postage, and Customhouse Duties
- XIII. Protection; Or, the Three City Magistrates. Demonstration in Four
- XIV. Something Else
- XV. The Little Arsenal of the Free-Trader
- XVI. The Right Hand and the Left
- XVII. Domination by Labour