Frederic Bastiat, who was born two hundred years ago, was a leader of the French laissez-faire tradition in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was influenced by Cobden's Anti-Corn Law League and became a convinced free trader. Joseph Schumpeter described Bastiat as 'the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived'. In The Law, written in 1850, the year of his death, Bastiat recognises the central importance of the law and morality in a free society. He was concerned that government was using the 'law' to become too active a participant in the economy whilst devoting too little attention to protecting life and liberty. This Occasional Paper, which reprints an English translation of The Law, includes a new introduction by Professor Norman Barry of the University of Buckingham which places Bastiat's views in their historical context and explains their continuing relevance today.

Bastiat's "The Law" (Occasional Paper, 123)

Business & Money

Frederic, Bastiat

Economics

Institute Of Economic Affairs

[Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]\n[Read by Bernard Mayes]\nWhen a reviewer wishes to give special recognition to a book, he predicts that it will still be read ''a hundred years from now.'' The Law, first published as a pamphlet in June of 1850, is already more than a hundred years old. And because its truths are eternal, it will still be read when another century has passed.\nThe Law is relevant today because the same situation exists in America now as in France of 1848. The same socialist-communist plans and ideas that were adopted in France are now sweeping America, notwithstanding the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. The explanation and arguments then advanced against socialism by Mr. Bastiat are, word for word, equally valid today. His ideas deserve a serious hearing.

The Law

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Paix et liberté; ou, Le budget républicain / On the Causes of War (The Garland Library of War and Peace) (English and French Edition)

Reference

Émile de Laveleye

Language Study & Reference

Garland Publishing

The Economics of Freedom: What Your Professors Won't Tell You

Students for Liberty

Foundation for Economic Educ

He was the most uncompromisingly consistent advocate of laissez-faire in the 19th Century -- and the most quotable!  Here, in a single volume, are this great political economist's most brilliant writings. They include his immortal classic, 'The Law,' as well as such unforgettable essays as 'The State,' 'What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,' 'Property and Plunder,' 'Declaration of War Against the Professors of Political Economy' and many others.  An intellectual feast! With an Introduction by Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek.

Selected Essay on Political Economy

Foundation for Economic Education

Product Details Paperback: 62 pages Publisher: Laissez Faire Books (2012) ISBN-10: 0983541485 ISBN-13: 978-0983541486 Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces

Laissez Faire Books

Creative Commons

Written two years after the third French Revolution, The Law is Bastiat's treatise on how those in power can use the law to their advantage to control and even enslave the population. Bastiat argues that all individuals have natural rights (i.e., life, liberty, and private property), which emanate from Natural Law, and the government's primary, if not sole, purpose is to protect these individual rights. This humble work is nothing short of a ringing exhortation of mankind's equal and absolute liberty under Natural Law, the law that springs from our inalienable state of self-possession. Prepare to go on a journey to discover the sanctity of being human and dealing with governments that immorally violate an individual's rights through the prosecution of unjust laws.

Masonic Publishing Company

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