The Project Gutenberg eBook of Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Frédéric Bastiat
Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Frédéric Bastiat
Author: Frédéric Bastiat
Editor: David Widger
Release date: January 1, 2019 [eBook #58584]
Most recently updated: February 25, 2021
Language: English
Credits: Produced by David Widger
INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
WORKS OF
FRÉDÉRIC
BASTIAT
Compiled by David Widger
CONTENTS
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## ESSAYS
ON POLITICAL ECONOMY ## WHAT IS FREE TRADE ## SOPHISMS OF THE PROTECTIONISTS ## ECONOMIC SOPHISMS ## THE LAW ## HARMONIES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ## PROTECTION AND COMMUNISM |
TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES
ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY
By M. Frederic Bastiat
Member of The Institute of France.
CONTENTS
| CAPITAL AND INTEREST. |
| Introduction |
| Capital and Interest |
| The Sack of Corn |
| The House |
| The Plane |
| THAT WHICH IS SEEN, AND THAT WHICH IS NOT SEEN. |
| Introduction |
| The Broken Window |
| The Disbanding of Troops |
| Taxes |
| Theatres, Fine Arts |
| Public Works |
| The Intermediates |
| Restrictions |
| Machinery |
| Credit |
| Algeria |
| Frugality and Luxury |
| Work and Profit |
| Government |
| What Is Money? |
| The Law |
WHAT IS FREE TRADE?
An Adaptation Of Frederick Bastiat's "Sophismes Économiques."
DESIGNED FOR THE AMERICAN READER.
BY EMILE WALTER
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION. | vii |
| CHAPTER I. Plenty and Scarcity | 11 |
| CHAPTER II. Obstacles to Wealth and Causes of Wealth | 16 |
| CHAPTER III.Effort—Result | 20 |
| CHAPTER IV.Equalizing of the Facilities of Production | 27 |
| CHAPTER V. Our Productions are Overloaded with Internal Taxes | 48 |
| CHAPTER VI.Balance of Trade | 55 |
| CHAPTER VII.A Petition | 72 |
| CHAPTER VIII.Discriminating Duties | 79 |
| CHAPTER IX. A Wonderful Discovery | 81 |
| CHAPTER X. Reciprocity | 86 |
| CHAPTER XI. Absolute Prices | 90 |
| CHAPTER XII.Does Protection raise the Rate of Wages? | 95 |
| CHAPTER XIII.Theory and Practice | 102 |
| CHAPTER XIV.Conflict of Principles | 110 |
| CHAPTER XV.Reciprocity Again | 115 |
| CHAPTER XVI.Obstructed Rivers plead for the Prohibitionists | 118 |
| CHAPTER XVII.A Negative Railroad | 120 |
| CHAPTER XVIII.There are no Absolute Principles | 122 |
| CHAPTER XIX.National Independence | 126 |
| CHAPTER XX. Human Labor—National Labor | 129 |
| CHAPTER XXI.Raw Material | 136 |
| CHAPTER XXII.Metaphors | 147 |
| CHAPTER XXII.Conclusion | 152 |
SOPHISMS OF THE PROTECTIONISTS.
By M. Frederic Bastiat
CONTENTS
| Part I. Sophisms of Protection—First Series. |
| Part II. Sophisms of Protection—Second Series. |
| Part III. Spoliation and Law. |
| Part IV. Capital and Interest. |
ECONOMIC SOPHISMS
By Frederic Bastiat
CONTENTS
THE LAW
By Frédéric Bastiat
FOREWORD |
THE LAW |
FOOTNOTES: |
INDEX |
INDEX Action, human. See Individualism;
Mankind Agriculture analogy to society, 35 Persian, 26 Antiquity. See Greece; Rome Authority. See Government Beggars, 11 Billaud-Varennes, Jean Nicolas, 38 Blanc, Louis competition, 45 doctrine, 42, 43 force of society, 47, 48 labor, 42 law, 50, 52 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 41 Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 25, 26 Cabetists, 46, 47 Capital displacement, 2 Carlier, Pierre, 13 Carthage, 32 Charity, vii, 5, 17 See also Wealth, equality of; Welfare Classical studies, 25, 26, 36, 37, 38 Collectivism, 2, 3 See also Government Communism, 18 Competition meaning, 45 results, 45 Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, 35, 38 Constituent Assembly, 24 Conventionality, 37 Crete, 28 Defense right of, 2, 3, 37, 49, 50 Democracy, vi, 43, 44 Democrats, 43 Dictatorship, vii, 39, 40 Disposition, fatal, 5, 37, 38 Distribution, 33, 34 Dole, 10, 11 See also Welfare Dupin, Charles, 13 Education classical, 26, 38 controlled, 33 Greek, 26 liberty in, 44 free, 21, 22 government provided, 22, 48 Egypt, 25, 26, 27 Elections, 43, 44 See also Voting Employment assigned, 26 See also Labor Equality of wealth, 11, 20, 29, 36 Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe antiquity, 27, 29 Telemachus, 27 Force common or collective, 2, 3 individual, 2, 3 motive, of society, 40, 43 See also Government; Law Forced conformity, viii Fourier, François Marie Charles, 41 Fourierists, 46 France revolutions, 47 Fraternity legally enforced, 16, 17, 21, 22 Fraud, 13, 14 Freedom. See Liberty French Revolution, 38 public services, 10, 11 purpose of, v relaxed, 35 republican, 30, 39 responsibility and, 3, 47, 48, 51 results, 28 stability, 31 virtue, 39 See also Communism, Socialism Greece education, 26 law, 26, 27 republic, 29, 30 Sparta, 32, 36, 38 Greed, 5 Happiness of the governed, 28 History, 5 Humanity lost, 19, 20 Imports. See Trade Individualism, 3 Industry, protected. See Protectionism Jobs. See Employment Justice and injustice, distinction between, 7 generalized, 7 immutable, 49, 50 intentions and, 17, 18 law and, 3, 6, 49 reigning, 19 General welfare, 19 Government American ideal of, v corrupting education by, vi democratic, 29, 43, 44 education, 23, 48 force, 2, 3 function, 38 monopoly, 45 morality, 39 motive force, 40, 43 power, v, 47 Labor displaced, 4 Land. See Property Law Cretan, 28 defined, 2, 16 Egyptian, 25, 26, 27, 28 fraternity and, 17 functions, 16, 31, 33, 49, 50 Greek, 26, 28, 29 justice and, 3, 4, 16, 51 morality and, 7, 21 motive force, 25 object of, 19 omnipotence, 44, 49 Persian, 26 perverted, v, 1, 5 philanthropic, 17 plunder and, 5, 13 posterior and inferior, 2, 3 respect for, 7, 9 Rousseau's views, 31, 33, 38 spirit of, 32 study of, 25 United States, 12 See also Legislation Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de, fraternity, 17 government power, 48, 49 Lawgiver, 38, 43 Legislation conflict in, 32 monopoly on, 5 struggle for control of, 11, 12 universal right of, 7 See also Law Legislator. See Lawgiver; Politicians Lepéletier, Louis Michel de Saint Fargeau, 39 Liberty competition and, 44, 45 defined, 42 denied, 44, 45 described, 53 education and, 44, 45 individual, 3 as power, 43 returned to, 55 seeking, 38 Life, faculties of, 1 Louis XIV 27 Lycurgus government, 30, 35, 36 influence, 33, 40 Mably, Abbé Gabriel Bonnot de, 35, 39 Mankind assimilation, 2 concern for, 54 degraded, 25 divided, 23 inert, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 35, 36, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 47 inertia, 44 as machine, 31 nature of, 33 violation of, 52 Melun, Armand de, 52 Mentor, 28, 29 Mimerel de Roubaix, Pierre Auguste Remi, 52 Monopoly, 5, 45 Montalembert, Charles, Comte de, 13, 15 Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondât, Baron de, 29, 31 Morality law and, 21, 22 Morelly, 41 Napoleon, 41 Natural rights, v Nature, gifts of, 1 Oliver de Serres, Guillaume Antoine, 29 Order, 3 Owen, Robert, 41 Ownership. See Property Paraguay, 30 Persia, 26 Personality, 2 Phalansteries, 55 Philanthropy. See Charity Plato republic, 30 Plunder absence of, 16 burdens of, 5, 6 defined, 17 general welfare and, 19 extralegal, 13 kinds, 13 legal, v, ix, 6, 13, 22 organized, 14 origin of, 6 partial, 15, 16 socialistic, 13 universal, 15, 16 Politicians dreams of, 36 genius of, 30 goodness of, 25 importance of, 22, 23 responsibility of, 27 social engineers, 22, 24, 32, 34, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45 superior, 46, 54 Politics exaggerated importance of, 8 and favors, vi plunder through, vi Poor relief. See Charity; Welfare Power. See Government Property man and, 2 origin of, 5 Protectionism, 18 United States, 12 Proudhonians, 46 Providence, 55 Public relief, 10, 20, 29 Raynal, Abbé Guillaume, 33, 35 Religion, State, 22 Rent seeking, vi, vii Republic kinds of, 29 virtues of, 39 Revolt, 6 Revolution, 47 French, 38 Rhodes, 32 Rights individual, v, 2, 3 Roberspierre, Jean Jacques government, 38 lawgiver, 40 Rome virtue, 32 Rousseau, Jean Jacques disciples, 8, 9 on the lawgiver, 31, 33 Saint-Cricq, Barthélémy, Pierre Laurent, Comte de, 50 Saint-Just, Louis Antoine Léon de, 38 Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, Comte de doctrine, 41 Salentum, 27, 29 Security consequences, 3 Self-defense, 2, 37, 49, 50 Selfishness, 5 Serres, Oliver de, 29 Slavery, United States, viii, 12 universality, 5 Socialism confused, ix, 22 defined, 14, 15 disguised, 22 experiments, 23, 24 legal plunder, 13 sincerely believed, 18 social engineers, 22, 24 refutation of, 15 Socialists, vii Society enlightened, 37 experiments, 23 motive force, 40, 43 object of, 36, 37 parable of the traveler, 54, 55 Solon, 33, 35 Sparta, 32, 36 Spoliation. See Plunder State. See Government Suffrage. See Universal suffrage Tariffs, vi, viii Telemachus, 27 Terror as means of republican government, 39, 40 Theirs, Louis Adolphe doctrine, 52 education, 45 Tyre, 32 United States, viii, 12 Declaration of Independence, v Universal suffrage demand for, 9, 43, 44, 46, 47 importance of, 10 incapacity and, 9 objections, 9 Vaucanson, Jacques de, 54 Vested interests, 13, 14 Virtue and vice, 28, 30, 35, 36, 40 Voting responsibility and, 9, 10 right of, 10 See also Universal suffrage Want satisfaction, 4 Wealth equality of, 11, 21, 29, 36 transfer of, vii Welfare, 10, 20, 28 |