The Law, original French title La Loi, is a 1849 book by Frédéric Bastiat.
It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous along with The candlemaker\'s petition and the Parable of the broken window.
In The Law, Bastiat states that "each o.
The essay was influenced by John Locke\'s Second Treatise on Government and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt\'s Economics in One Lesson.
It was published one year after the third French Revolution of 1848 and one year before his death of tuberculosis at age 49.
The Law, original French title La Loi, is a 1849 book by Frédéric Bastiat