Bastiat’s Works

Material about Bastiat’s Collected Works go here.

As they become available we will put drafts of the Liberty Fund’s translation of the Collected Works of Bastiat here as a temporary measure.

The French Government's Budgets for Fiscal Years 1848 and 1849

[Revised: 28 June, 2017]

Table of Contents

Introduction Overview of the Growth of the French State in the 19th Century Bibliography Pie Charts summarizing the Data

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Bastiat's Letters, Articles, and Books Listed in Chronological Order

[Updated: April 11, 2016 of a work in progress]

1819-39 | 1840-44 | 1845 | 1846 | 1847 | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | Posthumous

[Updated: July 17, 2019]

Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)

See also our companion project, the Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) Project page.

Places to Begin

Good places to begin exploring Bastiat’s ideas:

Works in the OLL by…

Part 3: The “Paris” Writings II: Bastiat the Politician, Anti-Socialist, and Economist (Feb. 1848 - Dec. 1850)

[Updated: 30 March, 2018 - a "work in progress"]

New: a revised translation of The Law.

Note: We have added final draft…

Part 1. Early Writings: The Bayonne and Mugron Years, 1819–1844

[Updated: 22 June, 2017 of a "work in progress"]

Note: We have added final drfat versions of material which will appear in the Collected Works, vol.3 "Economic Sophisms…

Part 2: The “Paris” Writings I: Bastiat and the Free Trade Movement (Nov. 1844 - Feb. 1848)

[Updated: 22 June, 2017 of a "work in progress"]

Note: We have added final draft versions of material which will appear in the Collected…

Part 4: The Unfinished Treatises: The Social and Economic Harmonies and The History of Plunder (1850–51)

[Updated: 22 June, 2017 of a "work in progress"]

Note: for Parts 1-3 we have added final draft versions of material which will…

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE GUILLAUMIN EDITION OF THE OEUVRES COMPLÈTES DE FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT (1862-1864).