The Law (FEE ed.)
- Frédéric Bastiat (author)
- Walter E. Williams (introduction)
- Sheldon Richman (foreword)
The translation by the Foundation of Economic Education of one of Bastiat’s most famous pamphlets, written as part of his opposition to the growth of socialism in France in the 1840s and where he states that “the state is the great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else”.