| Economic
Sophisms, Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
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| About the Author |
| Preface to the English-Language Edition, by Arthur
Goddard |
| Introduction, by Henry Hazlitt |
| Author's Introduction to the French Edition
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| I. First Series |
| I.1. Abundance and Scarcity |
| I.2. Obstacle and Cause |
| I.3. Effort and Result |
| I.4. Equalizing the Conditions of Production
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| I.5. Our Products Are Burdened with Taxes
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| I.6. The Balance of Trade |
| I.7. A Petition |
| I.8. Differential Tariffs |
| I.9. An Immense Discovery! |
| I.10. Reciprocity |
| I.11. Money Prices |
| I.12. Does Protectionism Raise Wage Rates?
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| I.13. Theory and Practice |
| I.14. Conflict of Principles |
| I.15. Reciprocity Again |
| I.16. Obstructed Rivers as Advocates for the
Protectionists |
| I.17. A Negative Railroad |
| I.18. There Are No Absolute Principles
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| I.19. National Independence |
| I.20. Human vs. Mechanical Labor and Domestic
vs. Foreign Labor |
| I.21. Raw Materials |
| I.22. Metaphors |
| I.23. Conclusion |
| II. Second Series |
| II.1. The Physiology of Plunder |
| II.2. Two Systems of Ethics |
| II.3. The Two Hatchets |
| II.4. Subordinate Labor Council |
| II.5. High Prices and Low Prices
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| II.6. To Artisans and Laborers |
| II.7. A Chinese Tale |
| II.8. Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
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| II.9. Robbery by Subsidy |
| II.10. The Tax Collector |
| II.11. The Utopian |
| II.12. Salt, the Postal Service, and the
Tariff |
| II.13. Protectionism, or the Three Aldermen
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| II.14. Something Else |
| II.15. The Little Arsenal of the Freetrader
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| II.16. The Right Hand and the Left
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| II.17. Domination through Industrial
Superiority |
| Footnotes |
| About the Book and Author
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