ECONOMIC SOPHISMS

By Frederic Bastiat

Translated From the Fifth Edition of the French,
by Patrick James Stirling, LLD., F.R.S.E.

Edinburgh: Oliver And Boyd, Tweeddale Court.

1873

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.

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