Frédéric Bastiat - O Estado e Outros Ensaios

The new volume in the Classics of Political Thought collection brings together the most celebrated texts of Frédéric Bastiat: "The State", which includes the famous maxim that "The state is the great fiction through which everyone attempts to live at the expense of everyone else"; "The Petition", one of the most brilliant critiques of protectionist ideology; "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen", a famous lesson on economic foresight; and the highly acclaimed "The Law", one of the most renowned and influential texts of 19th-century French liberalism.

Highly relevant today, Bastiat’s texts are introduced and contextualized by leading experts such as Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, and Professor André Azevedo Alves.