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"Frédéric Bastiat wrote numerous essays or pamphlets which the used to promote his ideas and to combat errors. Many of his important essays or pamphlets are included in this volume. Of these, “The Law” and “What Is Seen and "What Is Not Seen” are well known; others are not so familiar. Henry Hazlitt in his Economics in One Lesson said this regarding “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”: “The following work may, in fact, be regarded as a modernization, extension, and generalization of the approach found in Bastiat’s pamphlet.” The Editor is responsible for the arrangement of the essays in the present volume. This translation follows as faithfully as possible the originalFrench standard edition of the complete works of Bastiat. Cross references have been included among the three volumes of the present translation. Three types of notes are included: Translator’s notes are directed at the general reader and are mainly about persons and terms. Editor’s notes refer to notes by the editor of the French edition; Bastiat’s notes stand without such notations. Only the Translator’s notes are at the bottom of the page; Editor’s notes and Bastiat’s notes are at the end of the volume. The latter two are more important but were put at the back to avoid cluttering the pages and to promote readability. in either economic harmonies or economic sophisms."

"This book was written at the end of the thirties and its character conditioned by the experiences of that decade. When, in 1951, this book has been revised, some sections were added to “bring it up to date”. Contents : 1.The basic conditions of social wealth 2.The price system 3. The price system in a hypothetical handicraft economy 4. Money and the price system 5. Polulation 6. Wheat in the Canadian economy 7. Newsprint in the Canadian economy 8. Combines and public policy 9. The wage earner in modern industry10. Conclusion"

"This book introduces readers to some of the salient features and problems of the world economy and gives some indication of the main ways in which economists set about the task of analyzing them. After a general account of what economies are and how they work, the book's discussion develops with reference to broad statistical facts in relation to the following issues : why the world economy is as we find it ; why productivity varies from one community to another ; how prices are formed ; how national economies have grown ; what determines an economy's occupational structure ; how local specialization comes about ; how the pattern of international trade has grown and changed and what the main sources of insecurity in economic life are."