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The economic theory of protectionism can find some of it's roots it these articles. Protectionism stress protecting local industries and jobs over global and free trade. |
Protectionist
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Introduction
My object in this little volume has been to refute some of the arguments
usually advanced against Free Trade.
I am not seeking a ...
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Abundance Scarcity
Which is the best for man or for society, abundance or scarcity?
How, it may be exclaimed, can such a question be asked? Has it ev...
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Obstacle Cause
The obstacle mistaken for the cause--scarcity mistaken for abundance.
The sophism is the same. It is well to study it under every as...
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Effort Result
We have seen that between our wants and their gratification many
obstacles are interposed. We conquer or weaken these by the employm...
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Equalizing Of The Facilities Of Production
It is said ... but, for fear of being accused of manufacturing Sophisms
for the mouths of the protectionists, I will allow one of th...
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Our Productions Are Overloaded With Taxes
This is but a new wording of the last Sophism. The demand made is, that
the foreign article should be taxed, in order to neutralize ...
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Balance Of Trade
Our adversaries have adopted a system of tactics, which embarrasses us
not a little. Do we prove our doctrine? They admit the truth ...
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Petition From The Manufacturers Of Candles
To the Honorable the Members of the Chamber of Deputies:
GENTLEMEN,--You are in the right way: you reject abstract theories;
abun...
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Discriminating Duties
A poor laborer of Gironde had raised, with the greatest possible care
and attention, a nursery of vines, from which, after much labo...
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Wonderful Discovery!
At this moment, when all minds are occupied in endeavoring to discover
the most economical means of transportation; when, to put the...
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Reciprocity
We have just seen that all which renders transportation difficult, acts
in the same manner as protection; or, if the expression be p...
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Absolute Prices
If we wish to judge between freedom of trade and protection, to
calculate the probable effect of any political phenomenon, we should...
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Does Protection Raise The Rate Of Wages?
Workmen, your situation is singular! you are robbed, as I will presently
prove to you.... But no; I retract the word; we must avoid ...
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Theory Practice
Partisans of free trade, we are accused of being theorists, and not
relying sufficiently upon practice.
What a powerful argument ...
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Conflicting Principles
There is one thing which embarrasses me not a little; and it is this:
Sincere men, taking upon the subject of political economy th...
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Reciprocity Again
Mr. de Saint Cricq has asked: Are we sure that our foreign customers
will buy from us as much as they sell us?
Mr. de Dombasle sa...
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Obstructed Rivers Pleading For The Prohibitionists
Some years since, being at Madrid, I went to the meeting of the Cortes.
The subject in discussion was a proposed treaty with Portuga...
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A Negative Railroad
I have already remarked that when the observer has unfortunately taken
his point of view from the position of producer, he cannot fa...
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There Are No Absolute Principles
The facility with which men resign themselves to ignorance in cases
where knowledge is all-important to them, is often astonishing; ...
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National Independence
Among the arguments advanced in favor of a restrictive system, we must
not forget that which is drawn from the plea of national inde...
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Human Labor National Labor
Destruction of machinery--prohibition of foreign goods. These are two
acts proceeding from the same doctrine.
We do meet with men...
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Raw Material
It is said that no commerce is so advantageous as that in which
manufactured articles are exchanged for raw material; because the la...
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Metaphors
A Sophism will sometimes expand and extend itself through the whole
tissue of a long and tedious theory. Oftener it contracts into a...
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Conclusion
All the Sophisms which I have so far combated, relate to the restrictive
policy; and some even on this subject, and those of the mos...
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Natural History Of Spoliation
Why do I give myself up to that dry science, political economy?
The question is a proper one. All labor is so repugnant in its nat...
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Commentary
If this little book were destined to live three or four thousand years,
to be read and re-read, pondered and studied, phrase by phrase...
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Two Systems Of Morals
Arrived at the end of the preceding chapter, if he gets so far, I
imagine I hear the reader say:
Well, now, was I wrong in accusi...
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The Two Hatchets
Petition of Jacques Bonhomme, Carpenter, to M. Cunin-Gridaine, Minister
of Commerce.
MR. MANUFACTURER-MINISTER: I am a carpenter,...
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Inferior Council Of Labor
What! You have the assurance to demand for every citizen the right to
buy, sell, trade, exchange, and to render service for service ...
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Dearness Cheapness
I consider it my duty to say a few words in regard to the delusion
caused by the words dear and cheap. At the first glance, I am awa...
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Appendix
We published an article entitled Dearness-Cheapness, which gained for
us the two following letters. We publish them, with the answers:...
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To Artisans And Laborers
Many papers have attacked me before you. Will you not read my defense?
I am not mistrustful. When a man writes or speaks, I believ...
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A Chinese Story
They exclaim against the greed and the selfishness of the age!
Open the thousand books, the thousand papers, the thousand pamphlet...
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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
After this, therefore on account of this. The most common and the most
false of arguments.
Real suffering exists in England.
T...
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Robbery By Bounties
They find my little book of Sophisms too theoretical, scientific, and
metaphysical. Very well. Let us try a trivial, commonplace, an...
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The Tax Collector
JACQUES BONHOMME, Vine-grower.
M. LASOUCHE, Tax Collector.
L. You have secured twenty hogsheads of wine?
J. Yes, with much car...
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Utopian Ideas
If I were His Majesty's Minister!
--Well, what would you do?
--I should begin by--by--upon my word, by being very much embarras...
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Salt Postage And Customs
[This chapter is an amusing dialogue relating principally to English
Postal Reform. Being inapplicable to any condition of things ex...
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The Three Aldermen
A DEMONSTRATION IN FOUR TABLEAUX.
First Tableau.
[The scene is in the hotel of Alderman Pierre. The window looks out on a
fine...
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Third Tableau
Twenty Years After.
Son. Father, decide; we must leave Paris. Work is slack, and
everything is dear.
Father. My son, you do not ...
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Fourth Tableau
The Agitation.
Jacques Bonhomme. Parisians, let us demand the reform of the octroi;
let it be put back to what it was. Let every ci...
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Something Else
--What is restriction?
--A partial prohibition.
--What is prohibition?
--An absolute restriction.
--So that what is said ...
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The Little Arsenal Of The Free Trader
--If they say to you: There are no absolute principles; prohibition may
be bad, and restriction good--
Reply: Restriction prohibi...
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The Right And The Left Hand
[Report to the King.]
SIRE--When we see these men of the Libre Echange audaciously
disseminating their doctrines, and maintaining...
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Supremacy By Labor
As in a time of war, supremacy is attained by superiority in arms, can,
in a time of peace, supremacy be secured by superiority in l...
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Spoliation And Law
[Footnote 16: On the 27th of April, 1850, after a very curious
discussion, which was reproduced in the Moniteur, the General Council
...
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Capital And Interest
My object in this treatise is to examine into the real nature of the
Interest of Capital, for the purpose of proving that it is lawf...
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Capital And Interest
I address this treatise to the workmen of Paris, more especially to
those who have enrolled themselves under the banner of Socialist
...
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The Sack Of Corn
Mathurin, in other respects as poor as Job, and obliged to earn his
bread by day-labor, became, nevertheless, by some inheritance, the...
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The House
Mondor had a house. In building it, he had extorted nothing from any one
whatever. He owed it to his own personal labor, or, which is ...
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The Plane
A very long time ago there lived, in a poor village, a joiner, who was a
philosopher, as all my heroes are, in their way. James worked...
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