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Author: Frederic-Bastiat: 5 records

About Frederic Bastiat

1801 - 1850

Frédéric Bastiat was the great French proto-Austrolibertarian whose polemics and analytics run circles around every statist cliché. His primary desire as a writer was to reach people in the most practical way with the message of the moral and material urgency of freedom.

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The Law

Frederic Bastiat Updated 5/17/2011

How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail? These are among the most intriguing issues...
The Bastiat Collection

Frederic Bastiat Updated 4/11/2011

The world has always needed this: a gigantic collection of Bastiat's greatest work in a single, super-handy pocket edition, at a ridiculously affordable price. All of the best essays by this giant of liberty are here, 1000 plus pages of it, b...
The Bastiat Collection-Volume 1

Frederic Bastiat Updated 5/14/2010

In two volumes, here is The Bastiat Collection, the main corpus of his writings in English in a restored and elegant translation that includes some of the most powerful defenses of free markets ever written. This restoration project has yielded a...
The Bastiat Collection-Volume 2

Frederic Bastiat Updated 5/14/2010

In two volumes, here is The Bastiat Collection, the main corpus of his writings in English in a restored and elegant translation that includes some of the most powerful defenses of free markets ever written. This restoration project has yielded a...
"What Is Money?"

Frederic Bastiat Updated 1/15/2007

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