Here, in this 1850 classic, a powerful refutation of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, published two years earlier, Bastiat discusses: what is law?, why socialism constitutes legal plunder, the proper function of the law, the law and morality, "the vicious circle of socialism", and the basis for stable government. French political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT (1801-1850) was one of the most eloquent champions of the concept that property rights and individual freedoms flowed from natural law.

The Law

Frederic, Bastiat

Legal Theory & Systems

The Foundation for Economic Education

Perhaps the best brief primer on economics ever penned, Ballve's little classic explains such basics as what economics is -- and is not -- all about, the role of the entrepreneur, the factors of production, money and credit, international trade, monopoly and unemployment, socialism and interventionism -- all from an "Austrian School" perspective, and all in 100 pages!

Essentials of Economics: A Brief Survey of Principles and Policies

Business & Money

Faustino Ballvé

Economics

2016 Reprint of 1959 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.   Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of what he considered to be one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. The target here is John Maynard Keynes's “General Theory,” the book that appeared in 1936 and swept all before it.  In economic science, Keynes changed everything. He supposedly demonstrated that prices don't work, that private investment is unstable, that sound money is intolerable, and that government was needed to shore up the system and save it. It was simply astonishing how economists the world over put up with this, but it happened. He converted a whole generation in the late period of the Great Depression. By the 1950s, almost everyone was Keynesian.  But Hazlitt, the nation's economics teacher, would have none of it.  And he did the hard work of actually going through the book to evaluate its logic according to Austrian-style logical reasoning. The result: a nearly 500-page masterpiece of exposition.

The Failure of the "New Economics"

HENRY HAZLITT

An endless series of hobgoblins: The science and politics of environmental health scares

Science & Math

Hagen, Eric W

Earth Sciences

<p>classic work on the nature of the law and individual rights</p>

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

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