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The Law
The Law is a free lecture series (1 recordings, 2.2 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with Frederic Bastiat.
Bastiat's 1850 essay The Law, read in full for the Mises Institute's audio library. An unnamed narrator first gives an editorial foreword on Bastiat's life and the essay's theme of legal plunder.
Read the book: The Law by Frédéric Bastiat, free to download here.
Cover painting: laborers of the National Workshops level the Champ de Mars, Paris, March 1848. See every painting in the art gallery.
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The Law
Presents an audio reading of Bastiat's 1850 essay The Law, preceded by an editorial foreword. Argues that law is legitimate only as the collective organization of the right to defend life, liberty, and property, and condemns tariffs, subsidies, progressive taxation, and state-directed education and charity as forms of legal plunder.
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- Is The Law free to listen to?
- Yes. All 1 mirrored recording stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
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- 1 recording, 2.2 hours in total.
- Is the book behind The Law available here?
- Yes. The Law by Frédéric Bastiat is in this archive as a free download, on its own page.
- Is there a transcript of The Law?
- Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 17,175 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.
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