Table of Contents Series 1 Preface Chapter I Abundance--Scarcity 1 Chapter II Obstacle--Cause 10 Chapter III Effort--Result 14 Chapter IV To Equalise the Conditions of Production 20 Chapter V Our Products are Burdened with Taxes 37 Chapter VI Balance of Trade 43 Chapter VII The Petition of the Candlemakers 47 Chapter VIII Immense Discovery 52 Chapter IX Reciprocity 56 Chapter X Nominal Prices 59 Chapter XI Does Protection Raise the Rate of Wages 63 Chapter XII Theory--Practice 67 Chapter XIII Conflict of Principles 71 Chapter XIV Reciprocity Again 75 Chapter XV Obstructed Navigation for the Protectionists 77 Chapter XVI There are no Absolute Principles 78 Chapter XVII National Independence 81 Chapter XVIII Human Labour--National Labour 84 Chapter XIX Raw Materials 90 Chapter XX Metaphors 94 Series 2 Chapter I The Two Hatchets 98 Chapter II Lower Council of Labour 102 Chapter III Dearness--Cheapness 106 Chapter IV To Artisans and Workmen 113 Chapter V A Chinese Story 123 Chapter VI Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc 128 Chapter VII The Premium Theft 130 Chapter VIII The Taxgatherer 138 Chapter IX Protection, or The Three City Aldermen 144 Chapter X Something Else 156 Chapter XI The Little Arsenal of the Free Trader 166 Chapter XII The Right Hand and the Left 172 Chapter XIII Domination by Labour 179 Series 3 Chapter I The Broken Pane 185 Chapter II Public Works 188 Chapter III Freedom and Exclusion 191 Chapter IV Machinery 197