Bastiat's "The Law"
Contributors: Norman Barry (Introduction)
Series: Occasional Paper, 123
Publisher: Inst of Economic Affairs
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9780255365093
Subjects: Law; Essays; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Political Science; Politics/International Relations
Description: "Frederic Bastiat, who was born two hundred years ago, was a leader of the French laissez-faire tradition in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was influenced by Cobden's Anti-Corn Law League and became a convinced free trader. Joseph Schumpeter described Bastiat as 'the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived'." "In The Law, written in 1850, the year of his death, Bastiat recognises the central importance of the law and morality in a free society. He was concerned that government was using the 'law' to become too active a participant in the economy whilst devoting too little attention to protecting life and liberty."--BOOK JACKET.