Harmonies of Political Economy / Translated from the Third French Edition, with a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

by Frédéric Bastiat

[7] Correspondance—Œuvres Complètes, t. i. p. 99.

[8] Notice sur la vie, etc.—Œuvres Complètes, t. i. p. 18.

[9] This admirable work, the best and most complete treatise on money which exists in any language, well deserves a place in English literature.

[10] “God made the country; and it is perhaps in surveying plains, and meads, and mountains, remote from man, that the mind is most elevated to pure and high contemplations. But cities, temples, and the memorials of past ages, bridges, aqueducts, statues, pictures, and all the elegancies and comforts of the town, are equally the work of God, through the propensities of His creatures, and, we must presume, for the fulfilment of His design.”—Sir Charles Bell on the Hand, ch. 3.

[11] The following list of chapters, intended to complete the Harmonies Économiques, found among the author’s papers, is exceedingly interesting. Of those marked * no notes or traces were found.

• Normal Phenomena.
  • 1. Producer—Consumer.
  • 2. The Two Aphorisms.
  • 3. Theory of Rent.
  • 4. *Money.
  • 5. *Credit.
  • 6. Wages.
  • 7. Saving.
  • 8. Population.
  • 9. Private and Public Services.
  • 10. *Taxation.
• Corollaries.
  • 11. Machinery.
  • 12. Free Trade.
  • 13. Intermediaries.
  • 14. Raw Materials—Manufactured Products.
  • 15. Luxury.
• Disturbing Phenomena.
  • 16. Spoliation.
  • 17. War.
  • 18. *Slavery.
  • 19. *Theocracy.
  • 20. *Monopoly.
  • 21. Governmental Undertakings.
  • 22. False Fraternity or Communism.
• General Views.
  • 23. Responsibility—Solidarity.
  • 24. Personal Interest or Social Motive Force.
  • 25. Perfectibility.
  • 26. *Public Opinion.
  • 27. *Relations of Political Economy.
    • with Morals,
    • *with Politics,
    • *with Legislation,
    • with Religion.

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TO THE YOUTH OF FRANCE

[12] The First Edition of the Harmonies Économiques appeared in 1850.—Translator.

[13] The author employs the term prolétaire, for which we have no equivalent word, to distinguish the man who lives by wages from the man who lives upon realized property—“les hommes qui n’ont que leurs bras, les salariés.”—See post, Chap. X.—Translator.