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Title: What Is Free Trade?
An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Econimiques"
Designed for the American Reader

Author: Frederick Bastiat

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[Date last updated: January 1, 2006]

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WHAT IS FREE TRADE?

An Adaptation of Frederick Bastiat's "Sophismes Economiques"
Designed for the American Reader

by

EMILE WALTER
A Worker

New York:
G. P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway

The New York Printing Company,
81, 83, And 85 Centre Street,
New York

1867

CONTENTS.

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.