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Thoughts on the Mechanism of Societies

by Charles de Casaux

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2Preface by the Editor
  3. 3Thoughts on the Mechanism of Societies
  4. 4A General View of the Present State of Great Britain
  5. 5A More Particular View of the Same Subject
  6. 6Clear Savings of the Manufactories, Trade, and Other Branches of In…
  7. 7Thoughts on Imposts and Reimbursements — The Accumulation of Public…
  8. 8On the Grievous, but Necessary Part of the Impost
  9. 9Of That Part of the Impost, Which Is More Useful Than Grievous
  10. 10Objections of Another Kind Against Paying Off the National Debt
  11. 11In What Manner the Interest of the National Debt Will Be Probably P…
  12. 12Reflections on the Two Foregoing Articles
  13. 13A Thought Substituted to That of a Reimbursement
  14. 14General Balance of Trade in England
  15. 15Reflexions on Some Private Balances of England, Both of the Favoura…
  16. 16State of the Balance Between England and Holland
  17. 17Balance of France With England
  18. 18Equilibrium Necessary in All Things — On the Surest Means of Establ…
  19. 19Various Causes of the Alteration in the Prices
  20. 20On the Influence of the National Prices on the Sales in Foreign Mar…
  21. 21A Necessary Principle of Trade, Considered Both as Direct, and in C…
  22. 22Reflexions on a Letter From Philadelphia, Inserted in the English N…
  23. 23Under What Point of View Premiums and Other Encouragements of Expor…
  24. 24On the Influence of the Various Kinds of Taxation Upon National Prices
  25. 25On the Object of All Ministers of Finance in Laying Taxes
  26. 26Effects of a General Poll-Tax
  27. 27Effects of a Land-Tax
  28. 28Reflexions on the Foregoing System
  29. 29Effects of an Impost Exclusively Laid on Luxury
  30. 30Effects of a Merciless Tax Upon All the Articles of the Most Genera…
  31. 31Effects of Compound Taxation
  32. 32Some Doubts on the Supposed Impossibility of Laying All Taxes on Co…
  33. 33Recapitulation of the Foregoing Thoughts on Taxes and Their Effects
  34. 34Further Considerations on the Necessity of a Correspondence Between…
  35. 35On a Cause Little Suspected of High Prices
  36. 36The Happy Issue of a Desperate Combat Between Monopoly and Some Pri…
  37. 37Reflexions on a Very Strange Revolution in France
  38. 38The Pretended Balance of France in Point of Trade
  39. 39Exportations and Importations Considered as a Game
  40. 40On Luxury
  41. 41Thoughts on the Colonies
  42. 42Finis
  43. 43Préface — De L’Éditeur

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