Economic Sophisms and “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”. Bastiat Frédéric

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      Economic Sophisms and “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”

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      THE COLLECTED WORKS OF FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT

      Jacques de Guenin, General Editor

       The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics

       “The Law,” “The State,” and Other Political Writings, 1843–1850

       Economic Sophisms and “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”

       Miscellaneous Works on Economics: From “Jacques-Bonhomme” to Le Journal des Économistes

       Economic Harmonies

       The Struggle against Protectionism: The English and French Free-Trade Movements

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       Frédéric Bastiat

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      This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.

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      Cover art: Image of the village of Mugron, France, the town where Bastiat spent most of his adult life, from a postcard at www.communes.com / www.notrefamille.com.

      This eBook edition published in 2018.

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      978-1-61487-650-2

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       Contents

      Foreword by Robert McTeer

      General Editor’s Note

      Note on the Translation

Key Terms

Note on the Editions of the Œuvres complètes

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

A Chronology of Bastiat’s Life and Work

Introduction by David M. Hart

A Note on the Publishing History of Economic Sophisms and What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen by David M. Hart

      Map of France Showing Cities Mentioned by Bastiat

      Map of Southwestern France

       Economic Sophisms

Economic Sophisms First Series

[Author’s Introduction]

1. Abundance and Scarcity

2. Obstacle and Cause

3. Effort and Result

4. Equalizing the Conditions of Production

5. Our Products Are Weighed Down with Taxes

6. The Balance of Trade

7. Petition by the Manufacturers of Candles, Etc.

8. Differential Duties

9. An Immense Discovery!!!

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10. Reciprocity

11. Nominal Prices

12. Does Protection Increase the Rate of Pay?

13. Theory and Practice

14. A Conflict of Principles

15. More Reciprocity

16. Blocked Rivers Pleading in Favor of the Prohibitionists

17. A Negative Railway

18. There Are No Absolute Principles

19. National Independence

20. Human Labor and Domestic Labor

21. Raw Materials

22. Metaphors

Conclusion

      Economic Sophisms Second Series

       1. The Physiology of Plunder

       2. Two Moral Philosophies