Mises Daily
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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[This introduction to Bastiat’s Economic Sophisms (1845) is excerpted from The Bastiat Collection (2011).] My design in this little volume is to refute some of the arguments that are urged against the freedom of trade. I do not propose to engage in a contest with the protectionists; but rather to instill a principle into the minds of those who