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• The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat
• General Editor’s Note
• Note On the Translation
• Note On the Editions of the Œuvres Complètes
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Political Pamphlets As Models of Applied Economics
• Eyewitness to Political and Economic Upheavals (1848–50)
• Republicanism and Universal Suffrage
• State Education
• Hayek and Spontaneous Order
• Peace, Liberty, and Taxes
• The Left, Taxes, and Trade Unions
• The Economists, the Socialists, and Legal Plunder
• Freedom to Exchange
• Conclusion
• Frédéric Bastiat Chronology
• “the Law,” “the State,” and Other Political Writings, 1843–1850
• 1: Reflections On the Petitions From Bordeaux, Le Havre, and Lyons Relating to the Customs Service 1
• 2: The Tax Authorities and Wine 1
• 3: On the Wine-growing Question
• 4: Property and Law
• 5: Justice and Fraternity 1
• 6: Individualism and Fraternity
• 7: The State
• 8: The State (draft)
• 9: The Law
• 10: Property and Plunder 1
• First Letter
• Second Letter
• Third Letter
• Fourth Letter
• Fifth Letter
• Claim Made By M. Considérant and F. Bastiat’s Reply
• 11: Baccalaureate and Socialism 1
• 12: Protectionism and Communism
• 13: Plunder and Law 1
• 14: The War Against Chairs of Political Economy 1 , 2
• 15: Peace and Freedom Or the Republican Budget 1
• 16: Discourse On the Tax On Wines and Spirits 1 , 2
• 17: The Repression of Industrial Unions 1
• 18: Reflections On the Amendment of M. Mortimer-ternaux 1
• 19: Parliamentary Conflicts of Interest 1 , 2
• Bastiat’s Political Writings: Anecdotes and Reflections
• The Law-abiding Revolutionary
• The State As the “great Fiction”
• Bastiat’s Publisher, the Librairie De Guillaumin
• Bastiat’s Editor and Executor, Prosper Paillottet (1804–78)
• The Concept of Individualism
• The Idea of Laissez-faire
• The Concepts of “industry” and “plunder” (spoliation)
• The Right to Work Vs the Right Or Freedom of Working
• Classical Liberal Vs Socialist Utopias
• The Cause of Bastiat’s Untimely Death
• Speaking Truth to Power: “the Miller of Sans-souci”
• Glossary of Persons
• Glossary of Places
• 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

WORKS BY BASTIAT

The works by Bastiat listed below represent not only the sources used for this translation but also those cited in the text, notes, and glossaries.

Economic Harmonies. Edited by W. Hayden Boyers and translated by George B. de Huszar. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1979.

Economic Sophisms. Translated by Arthur Goddard. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1968.

“L’État.” Journal des débats (25 September 1848), pp. 1–2.

L’État. Maudit argent. Paris: Guillaumin, 1849.

Harmonies économiques: Augmentée des manuscrits laissés par l’auteur, Publiée par la Société des amis de Bastiat. Edited by Prosper Paillottet and Roger de Fontenay. 2nd ed. Paris: Guillaumin, 1851.

Lettres d’un habitant des Landes, Frédéric Bastiat. Edited by Mme Cheuvreux. Paris: A. Quantin, 1877.

Œuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, mises en ordre, revues et annotées d’après les manuscrits de l’auteur. Paris: Guillaumin, 1854–55, 1st ed.; 1862–64, 2nd ed.; 1870–73, 3rd ed.; 1878–79, 4th ed.; 1881–84, 5th ed.; if there was a sixth edition, the date is unknown; 1893, 7th ed.

The editions of Bastiat’s Œuvres complètes that were used in making this translation are as follows:

• Vol. 1:Correspondance et mélanges (2nd ed. of 1862)
• Vol. 2:Le Libre-échange (2nd ed., 1862)
• Vol. 3:Cobden et la Ligue ou l’agitation anglaise pour la liberté des échanges (2nd ed., 1864)
• Vol. 4:Sophismes économiques. Petits pamphlets I (3rd ed., 1873)
• Vol. 5:Sophismes économiques. Petits pamphlets II (3rd ed., 1873)
• Vol. 6:Harmonies économiques (2nd ed., 1864)
• Vol. 7:Essais, ébauches, correspondance (2nd ed., 1864)

Selected Essays on Political Economy. Translated by Seymour Cain. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education, 1975.