Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS ## 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