19th Century · English
Protectionism: The -ism Which Teaches That Waste Makes Wealth
Protectionism: The -ism Which Teaches That Waste Makes Wealth, by William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
chapters
18 chapters- 01By the Same Authorprose
- 02Prefaceprose
- 03Protectionism, Chapter I.: Definitions: Statement of the Question to Be Investigated.prose
- 04C.): Definition of Protectionism.—Definition of “Theory.”prose
- 05D.): Definition of Free Trade and of a Protective Duty.prose
- 06Chapter II.: Protectionism Examined on Its Own Grounds.prose
- 07C.): Examination of the Means Proposed, Viz., Taxes.prose
- 08D.): Examination, of the plan of Mutual Taxation.prose
- 09I.): Examination of the Proposal to raise the Standard of Public Comfort.prose
- 10Chapter III.: Protectionism Examined Adversely.prose
- 11I.: Protectionism Includes and Necessarily Carries with It Hostility to Trade or, at Least, Suspicion Against Trade.prose
- 12II.: Protectionism Is at War with Improvement.prose
- 13C.): Forced Foreign Relations to Regulate Improvement which can no Longer be Defeated.prose
- 143: Protection Lowers Wages.prose
- 15C.): Perils of Statistics, Especially of Wages.prose
- 164.: Protectionism Is Socialism.prose
- 17Chapter IV.: Sundry Fallacies of Protectionismprose
- 18Chapter V.: Summary and Conclusion.prose