Bastiat Fred (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. The wraps of this good-condition original 1851 paperback have been protected by being further wrapped in what looks like waxed paper. 568 pp. including the Table Des Matieres, which is at the rear, of course, this volume being inescapably French. This edition appearing shortly after the death of Frederick Bastiat (1801-1850) the pioneer champion of free-market, laissez-faire economics, who ridiculed and rebutted the usefulness of government interventions in the economy (inevitably undertaken to benefit one special interest or another) by the simple expedient of noting the widespread damage such interventions actually caused (a lesson still not grasped in the political capitals of America and most of the world) -- as famously in his satirical essay on the petition of the candle-makers, who urged the government to extinguish the sun, as its cost-free (and thus obviously "unfair") competition was sharply reducing their sales. This 1851 edition now reduced from $60.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Hardback. Quarter black leather over green marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 8, [1], xcvi, 426 pp. Recently rebound, with the original blue stiff paper covers and backstrip bound in. Eight pages publisher's ads at front, preceding the half-title page. Light penciled notations on first page of publisher's ads, no other marks in book, binding tight. Bound in original front cover has a bookseller label from Bordeaux at bottom. Bastiat (1801-1850) was an influential advocate of free trade and non-involvement of governments in economics that was later advanced by the Austrian school of thought. This work deals with the English Corn Law Movement. Book condition VG. Text in French. Binding: HB. Edition: First Edition.