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Sophisms of the Protectionists

by Frédéric Bastiat

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Preface to First Edition
  3. 3Part I — Sophisms of Protection
  4. 4I — Abundance — Scarcity
  5. 5II — Obstacle — Cause
  6. 6III — Effort — Result
  7. 7IV — Equalizing of the Facilities of Production
  8. 8V — Our Productions Are Overloaded With Taxes
  9. 9VI — Balance of Trade
  10. 10VII — Petition From the Manufacturers of Candles, Wax-Lights, Lamps…
  11. 11VIII — Discriminating Duties
  12. 12IX — Wonderful Discovery!
  13. 13X — Reciprocity
  14. 14XI — Absolute Prices
  15. 15XII — Does Protection Raise the Rate of Wages?
  16. 16XIII — Theory — Practice
  17. 17XIV — Conflicting Principles
  18. 18XV — Reciprocity Again
  19. 19XVI — Obstructed Rivers Pleading for the Prohibitionists
  20. 20XVII — A Negative Railroad
  21. 21XVIII — “There Are No Absolute Principles”
  22. 22XIX — National Independence
  23. 23XX — Human Labor — National Labor
  24. 24XXI — Raw Material
  25. 25XXII — Metaphors
  26. 26Conclusion
  27. 27Part II — Sophisms of Protection — I — Natural History of Spoliation
  28. 28II — Two Systems of Morals
  29. 29III — The Two Hatchets
  30. 30IV — Inferior Council of Labor
  31. 31V — Dearness — Cheapness
  32. 32VI — To Artisans and Laborers
  33. 33VII — A Chinese Story
  34. 34VIII — Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
  35. 35IX — Robbery by Bounties
  36. 36X — The Tax Collector
  37. 37XI — Utopian Ideas
  38. 38XII — Salt, Postage, and Customs
  39. 39XIII — The Three Aldermen
  40. 40XIV — Something Else
  41. 41XV — The Little Arsenal of the Free Trader
  42. 42XVI — The Right and the Left Hand
  43. 43XVII — Supremacy by Labor
  44. 44Part III — Spoliation and Law
  45. 45Part IV — Capital and Interest

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