System of Economic Contradictions: Or, The Philosophy of Misery

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System of Economic Contradictions: Or, The Philosophy of Misery (1888)
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, translated by Benjamin R. Tucker

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original French edition was published in 1846; this edition was translated by Benjamin R. Tucker and published in the United States in 1888.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon2265361System of Economic Contradictions: Or, The Philosophy of Misery1888Benjamin R. Tucker

Introduction
Chapter I. Of the Economic Science
- §1. Opposition between Fact and Right in Social Economy
- §2. Inadequacy of Theories and Criticisms
Chapter II. Of Value
Chapter III. Economic Evolutions.—First Period.—The Division of Labor
- §1. Antagonistic Effects of the Principle of Division
- §2. Impotence of Palliatives.—MM. Blanqui, Chevalier, Dunoyer, Rossi, and Passy
Chapter IV. Second Period.—Machinery
Chapter V. Third Period.—Competition
Chapter VI. Fourth Period.—Monopoly
- §1. Necessity of Monopoly
- §2. The Disasters in Labor and the Perversion of Ideas caused by Monopoly
Chapter VII. Fifth Period.—Police, or Taxation
Chapter VIII. Of the Responsibility of Man and of God, under the Law of Contradiction, or a Solution of the Problem of Providence
- §1. The Culpability of Man.—Exposition of the Myth of the Fall
- §2. Exposition of the Myth of Providence.—Retrogression of God+

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