Œuvres Complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, tome 6 : mises en ordre, revues et annotées d'après les manuscrits de l'auteur

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bastiat, Frédéric, 1801-1850

Contributor:

Paillottet, Prosper, 1804-1878

Language:

French

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Œuvres Complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, tome 6" by Frédéric Bastiat is a collection of economic essays written in the mid-19th century. This volume specifically focuses on the idea of "Harmonies Économiques," aiming to explore the relationships between individual interests and societal progress. The text delves into complex arguments about the nature of human interests, liberty, and the opposing forces of socialism and economics. The opening of this work presents Bastiat's central thesis that human interests, when left free from constraints, naturally align harmoniously, contributing to societal well-being. He invokes the image of youth, suggesting they are essential to the propagation of these ideas and encourages them to partake in understanding the economic harmony that can exist among individuals. Bastiat critiques both socialist ideologies and erroneous economic theories, arguing that misunderstanding the harmony of interests leads to societal discord and injustice. He raises poignant questions regarding human nature and societal organization, ultimately advocating for liberty as the key to unlocking the full potential of human interests and the avoidance of social antagonism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Produced by Curtis Weyant, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 64.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 2014-08-19