The term "e;free trade"e; is often bandied about by politicians and activists on both sides of the political spectrum -- but what does it really signify? In this concise volume, French economist Frederic Bastiat offers a comprehensive definition of what a market characterized by unconstrained trade looks like.
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Table of contents
- WHAT IS FREE TRADE?
- Contents
- Introduction
- 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
- Endnotes
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