The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 3: Economic Sophisms and “What is Seen and What is Not Seen”
Vol. 3 of a 6 vol. collection of the works of the 19th century French political economist Frédéric Bastiat. This volume contains the complete collection of Economic Sophisms, a third of which have never been translated before; as well as a new translation of What is Seen and What is Not Seen. A detailed glossary and several Appendices contain information about the people, institutions, and ideological issues of his day.
Additional information about the Bastiat translation project can be found at the Bastiat Project Summary page.
The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 3: Economic Sophisms and “What is Seen and What is Not Seen.” Jacques de Guenin, General Editor. Translated from the French by Jane and Michel Willems, with a foreword by Robert McTeer, and an introduction and appendices by the Academic Editor David M. Hart. Annotations and Glossaries by Jacques de Guenin, Jean-Claude Paul-Dejean, and David M. Hart. Translation Editor Dennis O’Keeffe. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2017).
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- Author: Frédéric Bastiat
- Editor: Jacques de Guenin
- Translator: Dennis O’Keeffe
- Editor: David M. Hart
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Table of Contents
- The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat
- Contents
- Foreword
- General Editor’s Note
- Note on the Translation
- French Names, Weights, Measures, and Currency; Use of English Words
- Key Terms
- Note on the Editions of the Œuvres complètes
- Abbreviations
- Works in This Volume
- Acknowledgments
- A Chronology of Bastiat’s Life and Work
- Introduction
- The Format of the Economic Sophisms
- The Benthamite Origins of Bastiat’s Critique of Sophisms and Fallacies
- Bastiat on Enlightening the “Dupes” about the Nature of Plunder
- Bastiat’s Rhetoric of Liberty: Satire and the “Sting of Ridicule”
- Bastiat’s Invention of “Crusoe Economics”
- Bastiat’s Political Sophisms
- Bastiat the Revolutionary Journalist and Politician
- A Note on the Publishing History of Economic Sophisms and What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen
- Map of France Showing Cities Mentioned by Bastiat
- Map of Southwestern France
- Economic Sophisms First Series1
- Author’s Introduction to Economic Sophisms
- 1.: Abundance and Scarcity
- 2.: Obstacle and Cause
- 3.: Effort and Result
- 4.: Equalizing the Conditions of Production
- 5.: Our Products Are Weighed Down with Taxes
- 6.: The Balance of Trade
- 7.: Petition by the Manufacturers of Candles, Etc.
- 8.: Differential Duties
- 9.: An Immense Discovery!!!
- 10.: Reciprocity
- 11.: Nominal Prices
- 12.: Does Protection Increase the Rate of Pay?
- 13.: Theory and Practice
- 14.: A Conflict of Principles
- 15.: More Reciprocity
- 16.: Blocked Rivers Pleading in Favor of the Prohibitionists
- 17.: A Negative Railway
- 18.: There Are No Absolute Principles
- 19.: National Independence
- 20.: Human Labor and Domestic Labor
- 21.: Raw Materials
- 22.: Metaphors
- Conclusion
- Economic Sophisms Second Series1
- 1.: The Physiology of Plunder1
- 2.: Two Moral Philosophies
- 3.: The Two Axes
- 4.: The Lower Council of Labor
- 5.: High Prices and Low Prices
- 6.: To Artisans and Workers1
- 7.: A Chinese Tale
- 8.: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc1
- 9.: Theft by Subsidy
- 10.: The Tax Collector
- 11.: The Utopian1,2
- 12.: Salt, the Mail, and the Customs Service
- 13.: Protection, or the Three Municipal Magistrates1
- 14.: Something Else
- 15.: The Free Trader’s Little Arsenal
- 16.: The Right Hand and the Left Hand
- 17.: Domination through Work
- Economic Sophisms “Third Series”
- 1.: Recipes for Protectionism
- 2.: Two Principles
- 3.: M. Cunin-Gridaine’s Logic
- 4.: One Profit versus Two Losses
- 5.: On Moderation
- 6.: The People and the Bourgeoisie
- 7.: Two Losses versus One Profit
- 8.: The Political Economy of the Generals
- 9.: A Protest
- 10.: The Spanish Association for the Defense of National Employment and the Bidassoa Bridge1
- 11.: The Specialists
- 12.: The Man Who Asked Embarrassing Questions
- 13.: The Fear of a Word
- 14.: Anglomania, Anglophobia1
- 15.: One Man’s Gain Is Another Man’s Loss1
- 16.: Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill1
- 17.: A Little Manual for Consumers; In Other Words, for Everyone
- 18.: The Mayor of Énios1
- 19.: Antediluvian Sugar1
- 20.: Monita Secreta: The Secret Book of Instructions
- 21.: The Immediate Relief of the People1
- 22.: A Disastrous Remedy
- 23.: Circulars from a Government That Is Nowhere to Be Found
- 24.: Disastrous Illusions1
- What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen, or Political Economy in One Lesson1
- [The Author’s Introduction]
- 1.: The Broken Window1
- 2.: Dismissing Members of the Armed Forces
- 3.: Taxes
- 4.: Theaters and the Fine Arts
- 5.: Public Works1
- 6.: The Middlemen
- 7.: Trade Restrictions
- 8.: Machines
- 9.: Credit
- 10.: Algeria1
- 11.: Thrift and Luxury
- 12.: The Right to Work1 and the Right to Profit2
- Appendixes
- Appendix 1: Further Aspects of Bastiat’s Life and Thought
- Bastiat’s Policy on Tariffs
- The Double Incidence of Loss
- The Sophism Bastiat Never Wrote: The Sophism of the Ricochet Effect
- On Malthus and Malthusian Limits to the Growth of the State
- Standing Armies, Militias, and the Utopia of Peace
- Bastiat and Conversations about Liberty
- Bastiat’s Theory of Class: The Plunderers vs. the Plundered
- Appendix 2: The French State and Politics
- The Chamber of Deputies and Elections
- French Political Parties
- French Newspapers
- French Government Administrative Regions
- General Councils (Conseils Généraux de Département)
- General Councils of Commerce, Manufacturing, and Agriculture
- The French Army and Conscription
- State Funding of Education
- Algeria
- Appendix 3: Economic Policy and Taxation
- French Currency
- French Weights and Measures
- French Taxation
- Wine and Spirits Tax
- Octroi
- Gabelle
- “Taxe de Quarante-Cinq Centimes” (The 45-Centime Tax)
- Indirect Taxes and the “Droits Réunis” (Combined Taxes)
- The Prestation and the Corvée
- French Tariff Policy
- The French Railways
- Slavery in France
- Public Works
- Appendix 4: French Government’s Budgets for Fiscal Years 1848 and 1849
- Appendix 5: Mark Twain and the Australian Negative Railroad
- Appendix 6: Bastiat’s Revolutionary Magazines
- La République française (26 February–28 March 1848)
- Jacques Bonhomme (11 June–13 July 1848)
- Addendum: Additional Material by Bastiat
- “A Few Words about the Title of Our Journal The French Republic” (La République Française, 26 February 1848)1
- The French Republic.
- “The Subprefectures,” 29 February 1848, La République Française1
- Bastiat’s Speech on “Disarmament and Taxes” (August 1849)
- Glossaries
- Glossary of Persons
- Glossary of Places
- Glossary of Newspapers and Journals
- Glossary of Subjects and Terms
- Bibliographical Note on the Works Cited in This Volume
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- WORKS BY BASTIAT
- WORKS BY OTHER AUTHORS CITED IN THE TEXT, NOTES, AND GLOSSARIES
- Secondary Sources
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