THE MAN AND THE STATESMAN
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT
Jacques de Guenin, General Editor
The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics
“The Law,” “The State,” and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850
Economic Sophisms and “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”
Miscellaneous Works on Economics: From “Jacques-Bonhomme” to Le Journal des Économistes
Economic Harmonies
The Struggle Against Protectionism: The English and French Free-Trade Movements
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Contents
Note on the Editions of the Œuvres Complètes
General Introduction, by Jacques de Guenin and Jean-Claude Paul-Dejean
Map of France Showing Cities Mentioned by Bastiat
Introduction to the Correspondence, by David M. Hart
PART 2: Articles and Addresses
SECTION 1: Articles of Biographical Interest
1. Two Articles on the Basque Language
2. Reflection on the Question of Dueling
3. On the Bordeaux to Bayonne Railway Line
4. Draft Preface for the Harmonies
5. Anglomania, Anglophobia
6. Proposition for the Creation of a School for Sons of Sharecroppers
SECTION 2: Political Manifestos
1. To the Electors of the Département of the Landes
2. To the Electors of the District of Saint-Sever
3. On Parliamentary Reform
4. To the Electors of the Landes
5. Letter to a Group of Supporters
6. Political Manifestos of April 1849
7. Letter on the Referendum for the Election of the President of the Republic
SECTION 3: Electoral Principles
1. Electoral Sophisms
2. The Elections
3. Fragment
4. Letter to a Candidate
5. Letter to Roger Dampierre
SECTION 4: Articles on Politics
1. On a New Secondary School to Be Founded in Bayonne
2. Freedom of Teaching
3. Freedom of Trade
4. The Parisian Press
5. Petition from an Economist
6. Article in La République française
7. The Scramble for Office
8. Impediments and Taxes
9. Freedom
10. Laissez-faire
11. Under the Republic
12. On Disarmament
13. The Kings Must Disarm
14. Articles in La République française on the Political Situation
15. To Citizens Lamartine and Ledru-Rollin
16. Report Presented to the 1849 Session of the General Council of the Landes, on the Question of Common Land
17. National Assembly
18. Parliamentary Conflicts of Interest
19. Parliamentary Reform
20. Letter to an Ecclesiastic
21. On Religion
22. On the Separation of the Temporal and Spiritual Domains
23. The Three Pieces of Advice
Glossaries
Glossary of Persons
Glossary of Places
Glossary of Subjects and Terms
Appendix: List of the Correspondence by Recipient
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Index