Economic Sophisms and What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen (The Collected Works of Frdric Bastiat, 3)

Bastiat, Frédéric

ISBN 10: 0865978883 / ISBN 13: 9780865978881

Published by Liberty Fund, 2017

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Synopsis:

This volume, the third in our Collected Works of Frederic Bastiat, includes two of Bastiats best-known works, Economic Sophisms and the pamphlet What is Seen & What is Not Seen. Both Economic Sophisms and What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen share similar stylistic features and were written with much the same purpose in mind, namely, to disabuse people of misperceptions they might have had about the benefits of free trade and free markets. Economic Sophisms and the other writings in this volume show Bastiat at his creative journalistic best: his skill at mixing serious and amusing ways of making his arguments is unsurpassed; the quality of his insights into profound economic issues is often exceptional and sometimes well ahead of his time; his ability to combine his political lobbying for the Free Trade Movement, his journalism, his political activities during the 1848 Revolution, and his scholarly activities is most unusual; and the humour, wit and literary knowledge that he scatters throughout his writings demonstrate that he deserves his reputation as a most gifted writer on economic matters, one who still deserves our attention today.

About the Authors: Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was born in the French port city of Bayonne and became one of the leading advocates of free markets and free trade in the mid-nineteenth century. A theorist of classical liberal political economy and an elected member of various French political bodies, he opposed both protectionism and the rise of socialist ideas.

Jacques de Guenin (1931-2015) was founder of the Cercle Frederic Bastiat. He was a graduate of the Ecole des Mines in Paris and held a Master of Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.

David M Hart has a PhD in history from King's College, Cambridge, and is the Director of Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Economic Sophisms and What Is Seen and What ...
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: acceptable