Frederic Bastiat

Classic Essays on Political Economy Frederic Bastiat

Of all the numerous writers who of late years have undertaken the task of expounding Political Economy, it is conceded that none have equaled the late M. Frederic Bastiat in the skill, and force, and lucidity with which he laid bare to men of average intelligence the elementary principles of the science. His works have become classical in this department of literature, and readers who found find in Adam Smith, and Ricardo, and even Mill, only cumulative evidence of the dry and uninteresting nature of the 'dismal science, ' will turn to these brief, simple, and homely expositions with never-failing pleasure and satisfaction