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This compilation gathers tables of contents and introductory material for a range of political economy essays and pamphlets, outlining their organization and chapter headings. It presents works that examine free trade and protectionism, the law's role in society, capital and interest, and the distinction between visible and unseen economic effects. Chapter listings and short divisions highlight discussions of tariffs, reciprocity, taxation, public works, wages, and the consequences of government intervention, and include well‑known illustrative pieces such as the broken window parable. The focus is on navigation and structure to help readers locate and approach these economic arguments.

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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

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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

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
ECONOMIC SOPHISMS. FIRST SERIES.
INTRODUCTION.
I. ABUNDANCE, SCARCITY.
II. OBSTACLE, CAUSE.
III. EFFORT, RESULT.
IV. TO EQUALIZE THE CONDITIONS OF PRODUCTION.
V. OUR PRODUCTS ARE BURDENED WITH TAXES.
VI. BALANCE OF TRADE.
VII. OF THE MANUFACTURERS
VIII. DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES.
IX. IMMENSE DISCOVERY.
X. RECIPROCITY.
XI. NOMINAL PRICES.
XII. DOES PROTECTION RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES?
XIII. THEORY, PRACTICE.
XIV. CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES.
XV. RECIPROCITY AGAIN.
XVI. OBSTRUCTED NAVIGATION PLEADING FOR THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
XVII. A NEGATIVE RAILWAY.
XVIII. THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTE PRINCIPLES.
XIX. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE.
XX. HUMAN LABOUR, NATIONAL LABOUR.
XXI. RAW MATERIALS.
XXII. METAPHORS.
CONCLUSION.
SECOND SERIES.
I. PHYSIOLOGY OF SPOLIATION.
II. TWO PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY.
III. THE TWO HATCHETS.
IV. LOWER COUNCIL OF LABOUR.
V. DEARNESS-CHEAPNESS.
VI. TO ARTISANS AND WORKMEN.
VII. A CHINESE STORY.
VIII. POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC.
IX. THE PREMIUM THEFT.
X. THE TAXGATHERER.
XI. THE UTOPIAN FREE-TRADER.
XII. THE SALT-TAX, RATES OF POSTAGE, AND CUSTOMHOUSE DUTIES.
XIII. PROTECTION; OR, THE THREE CITY MAGISTRATES. Demonstration in Four
XIV. SOMETHING ELSE.
XV. THE LITTLE ARSENAL OF THE FREE-TRADER.
XVI. THE RIGHT HAND AND THE LEFT.
XVII. DOMINATION BY LABOUR.






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