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First published 1892

Taxation and Work: A Series of Treatises on the Tariff and the Currency

by Edward Atkinson

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892; Online Library of Liberty edition195 pages

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Author
Edward Atkinson
First published
1892
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
195
License
Public domain by publication date.

A series of treatises by the New England cotton manufacturer and economist Edward Atkinson, published in 1892. Drawing on Cobden and Bastiat, he argues that tariffs do not raise workers' real wages, that protection breeds quarrels between nations, and that the United States should have sound money and free coinage of gold and silver.

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  1. CONTENTS.
  2. INTRODUCTION.
  3. CHAPTER I.: Occupations. Distribution of Products.
  4. CHAPTER II.: Taxation Measured by Work.
  5. THE CASE STATED.
  6. CHAPTER III.: Taxation Measured in Money.
  7. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, In account with THE TAX PAYERS.
  8. RECEIPTS AND THEIR SOURCES.
  9. CHAPTER IV.: Principal Sources of Revenue.
  10. CHAPTER V.: How the Tariff should be Reformed.
  11. CHAPTER VI.: Taxation Which the Government does not Receive.
  12. CHAPTER VII.: British Tariff Reform.
  13. CHAPTER VIII.: Beggarly Compensation of United States Officials.
  14. CHAPTER IX.: What Is Protection?
  15. REVERTING TO HISTORIC PARALLELS.
  16. CHAPTER X.: Occupations that cannot be Protected by Duties on Imports.
  17. CHAPTER XI.: Method of Tariff Reform.
  18. CHAPTER XII.: Protection by Exemption from Taxation.
  19. CHAPTER XIII.: Free Trade the Objective Point.
  20. CHAPTER XIV.: Attempted Definition of the Principle of Protection by Senators Sherman, Hoar, and Aldrich.
  21. CHAPTER XV.: Hamilton’s Policy.
  22. CHAPTER XVI.: Tariff Protection does not Raise Wages.
  23. CHAPTER XVII.: Protection Promotes War; Free Trade Promotes Peace.
  24. CHAPTER XVIII.: Does Tariff Protection Promote Liberty?
  25. CHAPTER XIX.: Progressive Reduction of Duties.
  26. CHAPTER XX.: Cost of a High Tariff.
  27. CHAPTER XXI.: Development by Free Commerce.
  28. CHAPTER XXII.: High Wages and Low Cost.
  29. CHAPTER XXIII.: The Use of Machinery by Nations.
  30. CHAPTER XXIV.: The Waste of Armies.
  31. CHAPTER XXV.: Senator Morrill’s Report on Canada Received. Food and Wages.
  32. CHAPTER XXVI.: In the Matter of Silver, Bi-Metallism, and Free Coinage.
  33. CHAPTER XXVII.: Volume of Trade.
  34. CHAPTER XXVIII.: Taxation by Bad Money.
  35. CHAPTER XXIX.: How to Maintain Silver Equal to Gold.
  36. CHAPTER XXX.: The Issue Joined.
  37. CHAPTER XXXI.: Personal Observations—Conclusion.
  38. About Liberty Fund
  39. The Online Library of Liberty
  40. Copyright Information

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