Bastiat, Frederic

Bastiat, Frederic. The Law. 1850. Irvington, NY.: Foundation for Economic Education. 1950. 75 pp.

A separate Publication of a new translation (by Dean Russell) of one of Bastiat's most famous pamphlets. "Law," Bastiat maintains, "is solely the organization of the individual right of self-defense which existed before law was formalized. Law is justice." But the law has been perverted, and applied to annihilating the justice it was supposed to maintain. Protectionism, socialism and communism are all forms of legal plunder.

BK: This book is currently online and can be found in its entirety in the Freedom Library on the Foundation for Economic Education's website. This is the same translation Hazlitt refers to but with a new foreward by Walter Williams, an introduction by the President of FEE, Richard Ebeling, and an afterword by the editor of the Freeman, Sheldon Richman.