Raw Materials
Economic Sophisms Second Series
2. Two Moral Philosophies
3. The Two Axes
4. The Lower Council of Labor
5. High Prices and Low Prices
6. To Artisans and Workers
7. A Chinese Tale
8. Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
9. Theft by Subsidy
10. The Tax Collector
11. The Utopian
12. Salt, the Mail, and the Customs Service
13. Protection, or the Three Municipal Magistrates
14. Something Else
15. The Free Trader’s Little Arsenal
16. The Right Hand and the Left Hand
17. Domination through Work
Economic Sophisms “Third Series,”
1. Recipes for Protectionism
2. Two Principles
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3. M. Cunin-Gridaine’s Logic
4. One Profit versus Two Losses
5. On Moderation
6. The People and the Bourgeoisie
7. Two Losses versus One Profit
8. The Political Economy of the Generals
9. A Protest
10. The Spanish Association for the Defense of National Employment and the Bidassoa Bridge
11. The Specialists
12. The Man Who Asked Embarrassing Questions
13. The Fear of a Word
14. Anglomania, Anglophobia
15. One Man’s Gain Is Another Man’s Loss
16. Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill
17. A Little Manual for Consumers; in Other Words, for Everyone
18. The Mayor of Énios
19. Antediluvian Sugar
20. Monita Secreta: The Secret Book of Instructions
21. The Immediate Relief of the People
22. A Disastrous Remedy
23. Circulars from a Government That Is Nowhere to Be Found
24. Disastrous Illusions
What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen, or Political Economy in One Lesson
[The Author’s Introduction]
1. The Broken Window
2. Dismissing Members of the Armed Forces
3. Taxes
4. Theaters and the Fine Arts
5. Public Works
6. The Middlemen
7. Trade Restrictions
8. Machines
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9. Credit
10. Algeria
11. Thrift and Luxury
12. The Right to Work and the Right to Profit
Appendixes
Appendix 1. Further Aspects of Bastiat’s Life and Thought
Appendix 2. The French State and Politics
Appendix 3. Economic Policy and Taxation
Appendix 4. French Government’s Budgets for Fiscal Years 1848 and 1849
Appendix 5. Mark Twain and the Australian Negative Railroad
Appendix 6. Bastiat’s Revolutionary Magazines
Addendum: Additional Material by Bastiat
“A Few Words about the Title of Our Journal The French Republic” (La République Française, 26 February 1848)
“The Subprefectures,” 29 February 1848, La République Française
Bastiat’s Speech on “Disarmament and Taxes” (August 1849)
Glossary of Persons
Glossary of Places
Glossary of Newspapers and Journals
Glossary of Subjects and Terms
Bibliographical Note on the Works Cited in This Volume
Bibliography
Index
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