** 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