Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Frédéric BastiatBastiat, Frédéric
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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Frédéric Bastiat
Bastiat, Frédéric
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Bastiat has adopted the theory of Mr Carey on this subject, which should be taken with some modification, 274, note by Translator.
Land which has not been subjected to human action, destitute of value, 274.
Value resolves itself into the remuneration of anterior labour or capital, ib.
M. Considérant's views reverted to, 278-280.
Productive powers of the soil have no independent value, 285.
Case of the South Australian Association referred to, ib.
Ameliorations which increase the value of land generally diminish the price of its produce, 347.
Explanation of this, 348, 349.
Theory of the progressive dearness of means of subsistence erroneous, 351, note.
Lauderdale, Lord, his Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth quoted, 187, note.
Legislation, relations of Political Economy with, 513, note.
Liberty, solution of social problem to be found in, 34.
Libre-Échange, newspaper, conducted by Bastiat, 18.
M.
M'Culloch, his opinion on landed property quoted, 253.
Machiavel quoted, 56.
Malthus on population, referred to, 113.
Vindicated from violent attacks made on him, 397.
Authors of those attacks writers of no reputation and grossly ignorant, ib.
Malthus feared that, with so great a power of reproduction, mankind would come to exceed what the earth could maintain but for prudence and foresight, 398.
An expression which occurred in the first edition of his Essay on Population, to the effect that population increases in a geometrical, and food in an arithmetical progression, gave rise to misrepresentation, ib.
Made a handle of by Godwin and Sismondi, and was suppressed in all subsequent editions, 399.
Attacks continued notwithstanding, the fiercest proceeding from men who confessed they had not read Malthus's work, ib.
The laws of population cannot be comprised in a brief aphorism or formula, 400.
Were known before Malthus wrote, 402.
Objections to his theory illogical, 405.
Arguments against his geometrical progression not conclusive, ib.
Wrong in adopting the limit of twenty-five years, although that holds good in America, 406, 407.
Malthus attributes more force to repressive than preventive check, 410.
His true formula is, not that population tends to keep on a level with, but to go beyond, the means of subsistence, 416.
Maudit Argent! pamphlet by Bastiat exposing popular errors arising from confounding capital with money, and money with inconvertible paper, 23.
Measure of Value, the quadrature of Political Economy, 170.
Absolute measure a chimera, ib.
Labour cannot serve as a measure, 171.
Mémoire sur la question Vinicole, pamphlet published by Bastiat in 1843, 12.
Mémoire sur la répartition de l'impôt foncier, pamphlet by Bastiat, written in 1844, 12.
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