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

Atkinson applies the free trade ideas of Bastiat and Cobden to the American situation. He criticizes the tradition of Hamilton, debunks the idea that protection improves the economic condition of ordinary workers, argues that free trade promotes peace and that protection promotes war, and urges the free coinage of gold and silver.

Taxation and Work: A Series of Treatises on the Tariff and the Currency (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892).

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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
TAXATION AND WORK.
CHAPTER I.: Occupations. Distribution of Products.
CHAPTER II.: Taxation Measured by Work.
THE CASE STATED.
CHAPTER III.: Taxation Measured in Money.
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, In account with THE TAX PAYERS.
RECEIPTS AND THEIR SOURCES.
CHAPTER IV.: Principal Sources of Revenue.
CHAPTER V.: How the Tariff should be Reformed.
CHAPTER VI.: Taxation Which the Government does not Receive.
CHAPTER VII.: British Tariff Reform.
CHAPTER VIII.: Beggarly Compensation of United States Officials.
CHAPTER IX.: What Is Protection?
REVERTING TO HISTORIC PARALLELS.
CHAPTER X.: Occupations that cannot be Protected by Duties on Imports.
CHAPTER XI.: Method of Tariff Reform.
CHAPTER XII.: Protection by Exemption from Taxation.
CHAPTER XIII.: Free Trade the Objective Point.
CHAPTER XIV.: Attempted Definition of the Principle of Protection by Senators Sherman, Hoar, and Aldrich.
CHAPTER XV.: Hamilton’s Policy.
CHAPTER XVI.: Tariff Protection does not Raise Wages.
CHAPTER XVII.: Protection Promotes War; Free Trade Promotes Peace.
CHAPTER XVIII.: Does Tariff Protection Promote Liberty?
CHAPTER XIX.: Progressive Reduction of Duties.
CHAPTER XX.: Cost of a High Tariff.
CHAPTER XXI.: Development by Free Commerce.
CHAPTER XXII.: High Wages and Low Cost.
CHAPTER XXIII.: The Use of Machinery by Nations.
CHAPTER XXIV.: The Waste of Armies.
CHAPTER XXV.: Senator Morrill’s Report on Canada Received. Food and Wages.
CHAPTER XXVI.: In the Matter of Silver, Bi-Metallism, and Free Coinage.
CHAPTER XXVII.: Volume of Trade.
CHAPTER XXVIII.: Taxation by Bad Money.
CHAPTER XXIX.: How to Maintain Silver Equal to Gold.
CHAPTER XXX.: The Issue Joined.
CHAPTER XXXI.: Personal Observations—Conclusion.

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