The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays

The Index covers the four published volumes of the author's essays -- The coöperative commonwealth -- The forgotten man (1883) -- Bibliography (p. [497]-518) -- Index. Preface -- Protectionism, the -ism which teaches that waste makes wealth (1885) -- Tariff reform (1888) -- What is free trade? (1886) -- Protectionism twenty years after (1906) -- Prosperity strangled by gold (1896) -- Cause and cure of hard times (1896) -- The free-coinage scheme is impracticable at every point (1896) -- The delusion of the debtors (1896) -- The crime of 1873 (1896) -- A concurrent circulation of gold and silver (1878) -- The influence of commercial crises on opinions about economic doctrines (1879) -- The philosophy of strikes (1883) -- Strikes and the industrial organization (1887) -- Trusts and trade-unions (1888) -- An old "trust" (1889) -- Shall Americans own ships? (1881) -- Politics in America, 1776-1876 (1876) -- The administration of Andrew Jackson (1880) -- The commercial crisis of 1837 (1877 or 1878) -- The science of sociology (1882) -- Integrity in education -- Discipline.