Project Gutenberg 2014-08-19 Public domain in the USA. 201 Bastiat, Frédéric 1801 1850 Bastiat, Frederic Bastiat, Claude Frédéric Paillottet, Prosper 1804 1878 Paillottet, P.‏ Œuvres Complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, tome 4 mises en ordre, revues et annotées d'après les manuscrits de l'auteur Produced by Curtis Weyant, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Œuvres Complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, tome 4" by Frédéric Bastiat is a collection of economic essays and pamphlets written in the mid-19th century. This volume focuses particularly on the topic of economic sophisms, where Bastiat confronts and dismantles common fallacies surrounding protectionism and advocates for free trade and economic freedom. The text serves as both a critique of contemporary economic policies and a foundational work for the principles of classical liberal economics. The opening of the work presents Bastiat's intent to refute arguments against free trade and to clarify misconceptions around economic principles, particularly those related to abundance and scarcity. He highlights the popular belief that scarcity leads to prosperity while arguing that true wealth comes from abundance. Bastiat explores the notion of economic obstacles, asserting that while industries might profit from restrictions, they ultimately harm consumers and society by limiting overall welfare and accessibility to goods. He aims to provide a clear understanding of these economic principles for legislators and the public, driving home the message that protectionist policies do more harm than good. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46625/46625-h/images/cover-page.jpg Reading ease score: 68.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. fr Economics HB Text FR Politique FR Sciences et Techniques Browsing: Economics Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: French Literature Category: Economics 1189134 2025-06-18T18:42:55.169723 text/html 1182636 2024-10-24T10:04:04 text/html 541992 2025-06-18T18:43:11.505106 application/epub+zip 556157 2025-06-18T18:42:58.032675 application/epub+zip 510650 2025-06-18T18:42:56.602678 application/epub+zip 906253 2025-06-18T18:43:20.887056 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 802201 2025-06-18T18:43:09.804127 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 757033 2022-09-21T07:58:21.833025 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1073324 2023-09-20T08:44:14.495207 text/plain 1053342 2024-10-24T10:04:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16811 2025-06-18T18:43:21.077069 application/rdf+xml 9097 2025-06-18T18:42:56.775683 image/jpeg 1676 2025-06-18T18:42:56.690676 image/jpeg 509469 2025-06-18T18:42:55.274739 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia