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Liberty Fund's six-volume "The Collected Works of Frederic Bastiat"
series, of which "The Man and the Statesman" is the first volume,
may be considered the most complete edition of Bastiat's works
published to date, in any country, and in any language. The main
source for this translation is the seven-volume "Oeuvres completes
de Frederic Bastiat", published in the 1850s and 1860s. The present
volume, most of which has never before been translated into
English, includes Bastiat's complete correspondence: 208 letters
Bastiat wrote between 1819, when he was only 18 years old, until
just a few days before his untimely death in 1850 at the age of 49.
For contemporary classical liberals, Bastiat's correspondence will
provide a unique window into a long-forgotten world where
opposition to war and colonialism went hand-in-hand with support
for free trade and deregulation. Bastiat's numerous letters to
Richard Cobden, a Member of Parliament and best known today as the
leader of the British Anti-Corn Law League, chronicle the profound
effect the Anti-Corn League had on Bastiat. The League's success in
mobilising a popular movement in England to pressure the British
government into abolishing the very protectionist 'corn laws' in
1846, inspired Bastiat to emulate the League's success in France by
starting his own free-trade movement. This volume also includes
articles and other writings on politics and current events that
showcase Bastiat's talent as a theoretician, a pamphleteer, a
journalist, and a deputy (Member of Parliament) of the nascent
French Second Republic. Together with the correspondence, the
writings in this volume fill an important gap in our understanding
of the lesser-known Bastiat, who, in just a few short years, made a
profound impact on French intellectual and political life in Paris.
Liberty Fund's six-volume "The Collected Works of Frederic Bastiat"
series, of which "The Man and the Statesman" is the first volume,
may be considered the most complete edition of Bastiat's works
published to date, in any country, and in any language. The main
source for this translation is the seven-volume "Oeuvres completes
de Frederic Bastiat", published in the 1850s and 1860s. The present
volume, most of which has never before been translated into
English, includes Bastiat's complete correspondence: 208 letters
Bastiat wrote between 1819, when he was only 18 years old, until
just a few days before his untimely death in 1850 at the age of 49.
For contemporary classical liberals, Bastiat's correspondence will
provide a unique window into a long-forgotten world where
opposition to war and colonialism went hand-in-hand with support
for free trade and deregulation. Bastiat's numerous letters to
Richard Cobden, a Member of Parliament and best known today as the
leader of the British Anti-Corn Law League, chronicle the profound
effect the Anti-Corn League had on Bastiat. The League's success in
mobilising a popular movement in England to pressure the British
government into abolishing the very protectionist 'corn laws' in
1846, inspired Bastiat to emulate the League's success in France by
starting his own free-trade movement. This volume also includes
articles and other writings on politics and current events that
showcase Bastiat's talent as a theoretician, a pamphleteer, a
journalist, and a deputy (Member of Parliament) of the nascent
French Second Republic. Together with the correspondence, the
writings in this volume fill an important gap in our understanding
of the lesser-known Bastiat, who, in just a few short years, made a
profound impact on French intellectual and political life in Paris.
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a keen observer of political and
economic problems and a passionate proponent of liberal economic
theory. This book collects nineteen of Bastiat's articles, ranging
from the theory of value and rent, public choice and collective
action, government intervention and regulation, the balance of
trade, education, and trade unions to price controls, capital and
growth, and taxation. Throughout his articles, Bastiat demonstrates
how the combination of careful logic, consistency of principle, and
clarity of exposition is the instrument for solving most economic
and social problems. In his famous essay "The Law" Bastiat explains
that the law, far from being what it ought to be, "namely the
instrument that enabled the state to protect individuals' rights
and property", had become the means for what he termed "spoliation"
(or plunder). From the article "The State" written at the height of
the 1848 Revolution in June, comes perhaps his best-remembered
quotation: "The state is the great fiction by which everyone
endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else". In this volume
readers will find extensive introductory material, including notes
on the translation and on the editions of the uvres completes, a
chronology of Bastiat's life and works, two maps of France showing
the cities associated with Bastiat, annotations to the articles,
and a bibliography. A special section provides charming,
little-known anecdotes about Bastiat and his contemporaries,
including his editor Prosper Paillottet, who became Bastiat's firm
friend and eventually his executor. This section also includes
discussions of key concepts such as individualism, laissez-faire,
industry, plunder, and the right to work. Three glossaries explain
persons, places, and subjects and terms.
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a keen observer of political and
economic problems and a passionate proponent of liberal economic
theory. This book collects nineteen of Bastiat's articles, ranging
from the theory of value and rent, public choice and collective
action, government intervention and regulation, the balance of
trade, education, and trade unions to price controls, capital and
growth, and taxation. Throughout his articles, Bastiat demonstrates
how the combination of careful logic, consistency of principle, and
clarity of exposition is the instrument for solving most economic
and social problems. In his famous essay "The Law" Bastiat explains
that the law, far from being what it ought to be, "namely the
instrument that enabled the state to protect individuals' rights
and property", had become the means for what he termed "spoliation"
(or plunder). From the article "The State" written at the height of
the 1848 Revolution in June, comes perhaps his best-remembered
quotation: "The state is the great fiction by which everyone
endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else". In this volume
readers will find extensive introductory material, including notes
on the translation and on the editions of the uvres completes, a
chronology of Bastiat's life and works, two maps of France showing
the cities associated with Bastiat, annotations to the articles,
and a bibliography. A special section provides charming,
little-known anecdotes about Bastiat and his contemporaries,
including his editor Prosper Paillottet, who became Bastiat's firm
friend and eventually his executor. This section also includes
discussions of key concepts such as individualism, laissez-faire,
industry, plunder, and the right to work. Three glossaries explain
persons, places, and subjects and terms.
Here, in this 1850 classic, a powerful refutation of Karl Marx's
Communist Manifesto, published two years earlier, Bastiat
discusses: what is law?, why socialism constitutes legal plunder,
the proper function of the law, the law and morality, "the vicious
circle of socialism," and the basis for stable government. French
political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FREDERIC BASTIAT
(1801-1850) was one of the most eloquent champions of the concept
that property rights and individual freedoms flowed from natural
law.
Here, in this 1850 classic, a powerful refutation of Karl Marx's
Communist Manifesto, published two years earlier, Bastiat
discusses: what is law?, why socialism constitutes legal plunder,
the proper function of the law, the law and morality, "the vicious
circle of socialism," and the basis for stable government. French
political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FREDERIC BASTIAT
(1801-1850) was one of the most eloquent champions of the concept
that property rights and individual freedoms flowed from natural
law.
The Law was originally published in 1850, and considered the work
for which Bastiat is best known. This is an unabridged edition -
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