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• Translator's Preface to First Edition.
• Introductory Essay, By J. Shield Nicholson
• Memoir.3
• Some Extracts From the Author's Preface to the First Edition.
• First Book: the History
• Chapter I: The Italians.
• Chapter II: The Hansards.
• Chapter III: The Netherlanders.
• Chapter IV: The English.
• Chapter V: The Spaniards and Portuguese.
• Chapter VI: The French.
• Chapter VII: The Germans.
• Chapter VIII: The Russians.
• Chapter IX: The North Americans.
• Chapter X: The Teachings of History.
• Second Book: the Theory
• Chapter XI: Political and Cosmopolitical Economy.
• Chapter XII: The Theory of the Powers of Production and the Theory of Values.
• Chapter XIII: The National Division of Commercial Operations and the Confederation of the National Productive Forces.
• Chapter XIV: Private Economy and National Economy.
• Chapter XV: Nationality and the Economy of the Nation.
• Chapter XVI: Popular and State Financial Administration, Political and National Economy.
• Chapter XVII: The Manufacturing Power and the Personal, Social, and Political Productive Powers of the Nation.
• Chapter XVIII: The Manufacturing Power and the Natural Productive Powers of the Nation.
• Chapter XIX: The Manufacturing Power and the Instrumental Powers (material Capital) of the Nation.
• Chapter XX: The Manufacturing Power and the Agricultural Interest.
• Chapter XXI: The Manufacturing Power and Commerce.
• Chapter XXII: The Manufacturing Power and Navigation, Naval Power and Colonisation.
• Chapter XXIII: The Manufacturing Power and the Instruments of Circulation.
• Chapter XXIV: The Manufacturing Power and the Principle of Stability and Continuity of Work.
• Chapter XXV: The Manufacturing Power and the Inducement to Production and Consumption.
• Chapter XXVI: Customs Duties As a Chief Means of Establishing and Protecting the Internal Manufacturing Power.
• Chapter XXVII: The Customs System and the Popular School.
• Third Book: the Systems
• Chapter XXVIII: The National Economists of Italy.
• Chapter XXIX: The Industrial System (falsely Termed By the School 'the Mercantile System').
• Chapter XXX: The Physiocratic Or Agricultural System.
• Chapter XXXI: The System of Values of Exchange (falsely Termed By the School, the 'industrial' System)—adam Smith.
• Chapter XXXII: The System of Values of Exchange (continued)—jean Baptiste Say and His School.
• Fourth Book: the Politics
• Chapter XXXIII: The Insular Supremacy and the Continental Powers—north America and France.
• Chapter XXXIV: The Insular Supremacy and the German Commercial Union.
• Chapter XXXV: Continental Politics.
• Chapter XXXVI: The Commercial Policy of the German Zollverein.
• Appendices Appendix A.
• Appendix B.
• Appendix C.
• Appendix D.

APPENDICES
APPENDIX A.

LIST'S allegation as to this effect of the pecuniary subsidies granted by England to her allies on the Continent would appear to have some foundation in fact: any capital transferred by one country to another (other than by a mere transfer of existing securities between wealthy States) must in the long run be effected chiefly in commodities. It is probable that the large loans made by English capitalists to foreign States (notably from 1850 to 1870) resulted in temporary extra demand for British products, which helped to cause the increase of our prosperity 'by leaps and bounds.' So far they may have operated as 'bounties' to British producers, in the manner in which List maintains that the subsidies did. But the subsidies being absolute gifts for services in war, and the subsequent loans to repudiating or bankrupt States being practically (although involuntary) gifts, produced no interest return in future years. The English nation has paid heavily (in the increase to the national debt) for any temporary benefit afforded to English manufacturers by the 'bounties' of which List complains. And English holders of foreign State bonds have paid no less heavily for the temporary 'leaps and bounds' by which British manufacturing industry may have advanced in more recent times, owing to the loans.—TRANSLATOR.