What Is Free Trade? / An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader
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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.
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTION.
- WHAT IS FREE TRADE? CHAPTER I.
- PLENTY AND SCARCITY.
- CHAPTER II.
- OBSTACLES TO WEALTH AND CAUSES OF WEALTH.
- CHAPTER III.
- EFFORT—RESULT.
- CHAPTER IV.
- EQUALIZING OF THE FACILITIES OF PRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER V.
- OUR PRODUCTIONS ARE OVERLOADED WITH INTERNAL TAXES——
- CHAPTER VI.
- BALANCE OF TRADE.
- CHAPTER VII.
- A PETITION.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- DISCRIMINATING DUTIES.
- CHAPTER IX.
- A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
- CHAPTER X.
- RECIPROCITY.
- CHAPTER XI.
- ABSOLUTE PRICES.
- CHAPTER XII.
- DOES PROTECTION RAISE THE RATE OF WAGES?
- CHAPTER XIII.
- THEORY AND PRACTICE.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES.
- CHAPTER XV.
- RECIPROCITY AGAIN.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- OBSTRUCTED RIVERS PLEAD FOR THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- A NEGATIVE RAILROAD.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTE PRINCIPLES.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE.
- CHAPTER XX.
- HUMAN LABOR—NATIONAL LABOR.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- RAW MATERIAL.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- METAPHORS.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- CONCLUSION.
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