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(1819-1912)
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Editor/Trans.
P. H. Lee Warner, trans.
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First Pub. Date
1899
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Publisher/Edition
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Pub. Date
1904
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Comments
Appendix by Edward Atkinson, Introduction by Hodgson Pratt, Prefatory letter by Frédéric Passy.
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| Cover Table of Contents |
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| Annotated Bibliography by David Hart | |
| Introduction by Hodgson Pratt | |
| Letter to the Publishers from Frédéric Passy | |
| Preface The Laws of Nature | |
| Part I. The State of War | |
| I. Formation of Primitive Communities and the Conditions Necessary to Their Existence | |
| II. Competition Between Primitive Communities and Its Results | |
| III. Competition Between States in Process of Civilisation | |
| IV. Decline of Destructive Competition | |
| V. Why the State of War Continues When It No Longer Fulfils a Purpose | |
| VI. Consequences of the Perpetuation of the State of War | |
| Part II. The State of Peace | |
| I. The Collective Guarantee of the Security of Nations | |
| II. The Free Constitution of Nationality | |
| III. Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions | |
| IV. Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued) | |
| V. Free Constitution of Governments and Their Natural Functions (continued) | |
| VI. Subjection and Sovereignty of the Individual | |
| VII. Impost and Contribution | |
| VIII. Production of Articles of Naturally Individual Consumption | |
| IX. Equilibrium of Production and Consumption | |
| X. Distribution of Products and the Share of Capital in the Proceeds of Production | |
| XI. Distribution of Products and the Share of Labour in the Proceeds of Production | |
| XII. The Problem of Population | |
| XIII. Consumption | |
| XIV. The Expansion of Civilisation | |
| XV. Summary and Conclusion | |
| Part III. Notes | |
| Note A. The Czar and Disarmament | |
| Note B. Syndicates Restricting Competition, or "Trusts" | |
| Note C. Effects of Industrial Progress on the Sphere of Production | |
| Note D. Costs and Profits of State Colonisation | |
| Note E. The Economic and Socialist Conceptions of the Society of the Future | |
| Appendix The Cost to the United States of War and of Preparation for War from 1898 to 1904, by Edward Atkinson | |
| Footnotes | |
The cuneiform inscription in the Liberty Fund logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.