About this book
Bastiat speaks with the greatest force to the highest order of intellects. At the same time, he is almost the only Political Economist whose style is brilliant and fascinating, whilst his irresistible logic is relieved by sallies of wit and humour which make his Sophismes as amusing as a novel. - Summary by Richard Cobden
1Introduction
2Abundance, Scarcity
3Obstacle, Cause
4Effort, Result
5To Equalize the Conditions of Production
6Our Products are Burdened with Taxes
7Balance of Trade
8Of the Manufacturers
9Differential Duties
10Immense Discovery
11Reciprocity
12Nominal Prices
13Does Protection Raise the Rate of Wages?
14Theory, Practice
15Conflict of Principles
16Reciprocity Again
17Obstructed Navigation Pleading for the Prohibitionists
18A Negative Railway
19There are No Absolute Principles
20National Independence
21Human Labour, National Labour
22Raw Materials
23Metaphors
24Conclusion
25Physiology of Spoliation
26Two Principles of Morality
27The Two Hatchets
28Lower Council of Labour
29Dearness — Cheapness
30To Artisans and Workmen
31A Chinese Story
32Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
33The Premium Theft
34The Taxgatherer
35The Utopian Free — Trader
36The Salt — Tax, Rates of Postage, and Customhouse Duties
37Demonstration in Four
38Something Else
39The Little Arsenal of the Free — Trader
40The Right Hand and the Left
41Domination by Labour
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