Part of: The Best of Bastiat The Best of Bastiat 3.1: Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles

• Frédéric Bastiat (author)

The Best of Bastiat (BOB) is a collection of some of the best material in Liberty Fund’s 6 volume edition of The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat (2011-). They are chapter length extracts and have been edited as pamphlets for easier distribution. These extracts should be useful in the classroom or discussion groups. This is one of his best known pamphlets in which candle makers petition the government to ban the sun in order to increase their sale of candles.