Economic Sophisms

Here is a book that dissects economic nonsense with wit sharper than a duel. Bastiat takes aim at the protectionist fallacies and statist delusions of his era, but his real target is the flawed reasoning that underlies them: the assumption that wealth comes from restriction rather than freedom, that exports must exceed imports, that governments can create prosperity through force. He does not merely argue; he exposes the sophistry hiding behind impressive-sounding economic policies. The result is as entertaining as it is devastating. The same logic that justified French tariffs in 1845 justifies trade wars now. This is the book that taught generations of readers to ask the simple question behind every economic claim: but what is the unseen?