Economic Sophisms and “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”. Bastiat Frédéric
in the first edition of the Œuvres complètes was called the “third” edition on its volume’s title page. As noted above, volume three of the Œuvres choisies, which appeared in 1863, included as volume 3 the fourth edition of the Economic Harmonies. When the second edition of the Œuvres complètes was published between 1862 and 1864, it included as volume 6 the fifth edition of Economic Harmonies (1864). This practice continued throughout the nineteenth century, with editions of Economic Harmonies staying in print as a separate volume as well as being included as volume 6 in later editions of the Œuvres complètes; thus, by 1870–73, when the third edition of the Œuvres complètes appeared, the version of Economic Harmonies that appeared in volume 6 was titled the “sixth” edition of the work.
Other “editions” of the Œuvres complètes include a fourth edition, 1878–79; a fifth edition, 1881–84; if there was a sixth edition, the date is unknown; a seventh edition, 1893; and a final edition may have appeared in 1907.3
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WORKS IN THIS VOLUME
Economic Sophisms First Series
| ES1 I | Introduction: Author’s Introduction |
| ES1 1 | Abundance and Scarcity |
| ES1 2 | Obstacle and Cause |
| ES1 3 | Effort and Result |
| ES1 4 | Equalizing the Conditions of Production |
| ES1 5 | Our Products Are Weighed Down with Taxes |
| ES1 6 | The Balance of Trade |
| ES1 7 | Petition by the Manufacturers of Candles, Etc. |
| ES1 8 | Differential Duties |
| ES1 9 | An Immense Discovery!!! |
| ES1 10 | Reciprocity |
| ES1 11 | Nominal Prices |
| ES1 12 | Does Protection Increase the Rate of Pay? |
| ES1 13 | Theory and Practice |
| ES1 14 | A Conflict of Principles |
| ES1 15 | More Reciprocity |
| ES1 16 | Blocked Rivers Pleading in Favor of the Prohibitionists |
| ES1 17 | A Negative Railway |
| ES1 18 | There Are No Absolute Principles |
| ES1 19 | National Independence |
| ES1 20 | Human Labor and Domestic Labor |
| ES1 21 | Raw Materials |
| ES1 22 | Metaphors |
| ES1 C | Conclusion |
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Economic Sophisms Second Series
| ES2 1 | The Physiology of Plunder |
| ES2 2 | Two Moral Philosophies |
| ES2 3 | The Two Axes |
| ES2 4 | The Lower Council of Labor |
| ES2 5 | High Prices and Low Prices |
| ES2 6 | To Artisans and Workers |
| ES2 7 | A Chinese Tale |
| ES2 8 | Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc |
| ES2 9 | Theft by Subsidy |
| ES2 10 | The Tax Collector |
| ES2 11 | The Utopian |
| ES2 12 | Salt, the Mail, and the Customs Service |
| ES2 13 | Protection, or the Three Municipal Magistrates |
| ES2 14 | Something Else |
| ES2 15 | The Free Trader’s Little Arsenal |
| ES2 16 | The Right Hand and the Left Hand |
| ES2 17 | Domination through Work |
Economic Sophisms “Third Series”
| ES3 1 | Recipes for Protectionism |
| ES3 2 | Two Principles |
| ES3 3 | M. Cunin-Gridaine’s Logic |
| ES3 4 | One Profit versus Two Losses |
| ES3 5 | On Moderation |
| ES3 6 | The People and the Bourgeoisie |
| ES3 7 | Two Losses versus One Profit |
| ES3 8 | The Political Economy of the Generals |
| ES3 9 | A Protest |
| ES3 10 | The Spanish Association for the Defense of National Employment and the Bidassoa Bridge |
| ES3 11 | The Specialists |
| ES3 12 | The Man Who Asked Embarrassing Questions |
| ES3 13 | The Fear of a Word |
| ES3 14 | Anglomania, Anglophobia |
| ES3 15 | One Man’s Gain Is Another Man’s Loss |
| ES3 16 | Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill |
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| ES3 17 | A Little Manual for Consumers; In Other Words, for Everyone |
| ES3 18 | The Mayor of Énios |
| ES3 19 | Antediluvian Sugar |
| ES3 20 |
Monita Secreta: The Secret Book |