** Introduction. The hypothesis of a God
** 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.
*** 1. — Opposition of value in USE and value in EXCHANGE.
*** 2. — Constitution of value; definition of wealth.
*** 3. — Application of the law of proportionality of values.
** 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.
*** 1. — Of the function of machinery in its relations to liberty.
*** 2. — Machinery’s contradiction. — Origin of capital and wages.
*** 3. — Of preservatives against the disastrous influence of machinery.
** Chapter V. Third Period. — Competition.
*** 1. — Necessity of competition.
*** 2. — Subversive effects of competition, and the destruction of liberty thereby.
*** 3. — Remedies against 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.
*** 1. — Synthetic idea of the tax. — Point of departure and development of this idea.
*** 2. — Antinomy of the tax.
*** 3. — Disastrous and inevitable consequences of the tax. (Provisions, sumptuary laws, rural and industrial police, patents, trade-marks, etc.)
** 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.
** Chapter IX. Sixth Epoch. — The Trade Balance.
*** 1. — The necessity of free trade
*** 2. — The necessity of protection
*** 3. — Trade balance theory
** Chapter X. Seventh Epoch. — The Credit.
*** 1. — Origin and Development of the Idea of Credit
*** 2. — Development of credit institutions
*** 3. — Credit's falsehoods and contradictions
** Chapter XI. Eighth Epoch. — The Property.
*** 1. — The property is inexplicable outside of the economic series
*** 2. — Causes of the establishment of property
*** 3. — How property depraves itself
*** 4. — Proof of the God hypothesis through property
** Chapter XII. Ninth Epoch. — The Community.
*** 1. — The community derives from the political economy
*** 2. — Definition of what is owned and what is common
*** 3. — The communist problem
*** 4. — The community takes its ends to be its means
*** 5. — The community is incompatible with the family
*** 6. — The community is impossible without estate law, and it dies because of the estate
*** 7. — The community is impossible without organisational law, and it dies because of organisation
*** 8. — The community is impossible without justice, and it dies because of justice
*** 9. — The community is diverse, unintelligent and unintelligible
*** 10. — The community is the religion of misery
** Chapter XIII. Tenth Epoch. — The People
*** 1. — The destruction of society through production and labour
*** 2. — Poverty is a fact of political economy
*** 3. — Principle of population equilibrium
** Chapter XIV. Summary and Conclusion