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System of Economical Contradictions or, The Philosophy of Misery
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INTRODUCTION.
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0.1.
I.
0.2.
II.
0.3.
III.
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CHAPTER I. OF THE ECONOMIC SCIENCE.
1.1.
1. — Opposition between FACT and RIGHT in social economy.
1.2.
2. — Inadequacy of theories and criticisms.
2.
CHAPTER II. OF VALUE.
2.1.
1. — Opposition of value in USE and value in EXCHANGE.
2.2.
2. — Constitution of value; definition of wealth.
2.3.
3. — Application of the law of proportionality of values.
3.
CHAPTER III. ECONOMIC EVOLUTIONS. — FIRST PERIOD. — THE DIVISION OF LABOR.
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3.1.
1. — Antagonistic effects of the principle of division.
3.2.
2. — Impotence of palliatives. — MM. Blanqui, Chevalier, Dunoyer, Rossi, and Passy.
4.
CHAPTER IV. SECOND PERIOD. — MACHINERY.
[introduction]
4.1.
1. — Of the function of machinery in its relations to liberty.
4.2.
2. — Machinery's contradiction. — Origin of capital and wages.
4.3.
3. — Of preservatives against the disastrous influence of machinery.
5.
CHAPTER V. THIRD PERIOD. — COMPETITION.
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5.1.
1. — Necessity of competition.
5.2.
2. — Subversive effects of competition, and the destruction of liberty thereby.
5.3.
3. — Remedies against competition.
6.
CHAPTER VI.
FOURTH PERIOD. — MONOPOLY
6.1.
1. — Necessity of monopoly.
6.2.
2. — The disasters in labor and the perversion of ideas caused by monopoly.
7.
CHAPTER VII. FIFTH PERIOD. — POLICE, OR TAXATION.
[introduction]
7.1.
1. — Synthetic idea of the tax. — Point of departure and development of this idea.
7.2.
2. — 2. — Antinomy of the tax.
7.3.
3. — Disastrous and inevitable consequences of the tax. (Provisions, sumptuary laws, rural and industrial police, patents, trade-marks, etc.)
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CHAPTER VIII. OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN AND OF GOD, UNDER THE LAW OF CONTRADICTION, OR A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDENCE.
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8.1.
1. — The culpability of man. — Exposition of the myth of the fall.
8.2.
2. — Exposition of the myth of Providence. — Retrogression of God.
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System of Economical Contradictions or, The Philosophy of Misery
System of Economical Contradictions or, The Philosophy of Misery
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Arno Press
New York
1972
System of Economical Contradictions or, The Philosophy of Misery