"The Law," "The State," and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850, collects nineteen of Bastiat's "pamphlets," or 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. Many of these are topics still relevant and debated today.In addition, this edition also contains footnotes and glossary entries that help explain the political, economic, and intellectual context in which Bastiat lived and worked. Filling gaps on Bastiat and his philosophy, this volume features articles that have never before been translated in English.Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was one of the leading advocates of free markets and free trade in the mid-nineteenth century.Pascal Salin is Emeritus Professor of Economics,...
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