Private and Public Services

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Political Theory, Free Markets

04/30/2009 Claude Frédéric Bastiat

From Chapter IX of The Bastiat Collection: Volume II: "Harmonies of Political Economy (Book Two)". Pages 481-505 in the text. Narrated by Brannon King.

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