The Project Gutenberg eBook, What Is Free Trade?, by Frédérick Bastiat, Translated by Emile Walter

Title: What Is Free Trade?

An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques"

Designed for the American Reader

Author: Frédérick Bastiat

Release Date: June 22, 2005 [eBook #16106]

[Date last updated: January 1, 2006]

Language: English

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What Is Free Trade?

AN ADAPTATION OF

Frederick Bastiat's "Sophismes Économiques."

DESIGNED FOR THE AMERICAN READER.

BY

EMILE WALTER,

A WORKER.

NEW YORK:

G. P. PUTNAM & SON, 661 BROADWAY.

1867.

The New York Printing Company,

81, 83, and  85 Centre Street,

New York.

CONTENTS.

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• INTRODUCTION. vii
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• CHAPTER I.  Plenty and Scarcity 11
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• CHAPTER II. Obstacles to Wealth and Causes of Wealth 16
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• CHAPTER III.Effort—Result 20
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• CHAPTER IV.Equalizing of the Facilities of Production 27
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• CHAPTER V. Our Productions are Overloaded with Internal Taxes 48
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• CHAPTER VI.Balance of Trade 55
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• CHAPTER VII.A Petition 72
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• CHAPTER VIII.Discriminating Duties 79
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• CHAPTER IX. A Wonderful Discovery 81
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• CHAPTER X.  Reciprocity 86
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• CHAPTER XI. Absolute Prices 90
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• CHAPTER XII.Does Protection raise the Rate of Wages? 95
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• CHAPTER XIII.Theory and Practice 102
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• CHAPTER XIV.Conflict of Principles 110
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• CHAPTER XV.Reciprocity Again 115
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• CHAPTER XVI.Obstructed Rivers plead for the Prohibitionists 118
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• CHAPTER XVII.A Negative Railroad 120
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• CHAPTER XVIII.There are no Absolute Principles 122
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• CHAPTER XIX.National Independence 126
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• CHAPTER XX. Human Labor—National Labor 129
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• CHAPTER XXI.Raw