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Economic Sophisms

by Frédéric Bastiat

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Author
Bastiat, Frédéric, 1801-1850
Credits
Produced by David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
HF: Social sciences: Commerce
Subject
Free trade
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eBook-No.
44145
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44145
Release Date
November 10, 2013
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.ECONOMIC SOPHISMS
  2. 2.By Frederic Bastiat — Translated From the Fifth Edition of the French, by Patrick James Stirling, LLD., F.R.S.E. — 1873
  3. 3.TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. — P.J.S.
  4. 4.ECONOMIC SOPHISMS. FIRST SERIES.
  5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
  6. 6.I. ABUNDANCE, SCARCITY.
  7. 7.II. OBSTACLE, CAUSE.
  8. 8.III. EFFORT, RESULT.
  9. 9.IV. TO EQUALIZE THE CONDITIONS OF PRODUCTION.
  10. 10.V. OUR PRODUCTS ARE BURDENED WITH TAXES.
  11. 11.VI. BALANCE OF TRADE.
  12. 12.VII. OF THE MANUFACTURERS
  13. 13.VIII. DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES.
  14. 14.IX. IMMENSE DISCOVERY.
  15. 15.X. RECIPROCITY.
  16. 16.XI. NOMINAL PRICES.
  17. 17.XII. DOES PROTECTION RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES?
  18. 18.XIII. THEORY, PRACTICE.
  19. 19.XIV. CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES.
  20. 20.XV. RECIPROCITY AGAIN.
  21. 21.XVI. OBSTRUCTED NAVIGATION PLEADING FOR THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
  22. 22.XVII. A NEGATIVE RAILWAY.
  23. 23.XVIII. THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTE PRINCIPLES.
  24. 24.XIX. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE.
  25. 25.XX. HUMAN LABOUR, NATIONAL LABOUR.
  26. 26.XXI. RAW MATERIALS.
  27. 27.XXII. METAPHORS.
  28. 28.CONCLUSION. — END OF THE FIRST SERIES.
  29. 29.SECOND SERIES.
  30. 30.I. PHYSIOLOGY OF SPOLIATION. — COMMENTARY. — JUSTIFICATION.
  31. 31.II. TWO PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY.
  32. 32.III. THE TWO HATCHETS.
  33. 33.IV. LOWER COUNCIL OF LABOUR. — EFFECTS OF PROTECTION.—REPORT OF THE TAILORS. — EFFECTS OF PROTECTION.—REPORT OF THE BLACKSMITHS.
  34. 34.V. DEARNESS-CHEAPNESS. — SUPPLEMENT.*
  35. 35.VI. TO ARTISANS AND WORKMEN.
  36. 36.VII. A CHINESE STORY.
  37. 37.VIII. POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC.
  38. 38.IX. THE PREMIUM THEFT.
  39. 39.X. THE TAXGATHERER. — Jacques Bonhomme, a Vinedresser.
  40. 40.XI. THE UTOPIAN FREE-TRADER.
  41. 41.XII. THE SALT-TAX, RATES OF POSTAGE, AND CUSTOMHOUSE DUTIES.
  42. 42.XIII. PROTECTION; OR, THE THREE CITY MAGISTRATES. Demonstration in Four
  43. 43.XIV. SOMETHING ELSE.
  44. 44.XV. THE LITTLE ARSENAL OF THE FREE-TRADER.
  45. 45.XVI. THE RIGHT HAND AND THE LEFT. — Report Addressed to the King.
  46. 46.XVII. DOMINATION BY LABOUR. — THE END.

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