The Collected Bastiat
Mises Institute put this book together -- Bastiat Collection Pocket Edition -- over 1,000 pages, well-laid-out, for only $4.99 for the e-book and $24 for the paperback, including his famous essay on broken windows. From the Mises write-up on Amazon:

The world has always needed this: a gigantic collection of Bastiat's greatest work in a single, super-handy pocket edition, at a ridiculously affordable price. All of the best essays by this giant of liberty are here, 1000 plus pages of it, but in a compact package that it is still easy to read. In fact, it is a joy to hold and even more to read because the text just jumps off the page.

Putting this together was a challenge but one we accepted because many people said that our two-volume hardback, though beautiful, was too costly and cumbersome. For some collectors, this was great, but what about students and people who read on the subway, or on lunch break, or just want to throw the book into an overnight bag for a quick trip somewhere?

We can't be more pleased at the result. This is the Bastiat Collection that the world has needed.

Thanks! I just added this to my Amazon wishlist.

I'll try to remember to buy through Amy's mall.

JFP at September 23, 2012 7:44 AM

Amy Alkon

https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/09/the-collected-b.html#comment-3338669">comment from JFP

Thanks so much. This link goes to it if you just come back to this blog item. (Search on my blog "Bastiat" to re-find it.)

I'm reading an advance copy now of Greg Lukianoff's amazing and inspiring Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, but I'm going to get the Kindle version of this as soon as I'm done. $4.99 for all of the best of Bastiat...whatta bargain and a treat.

PS I highly recommend Greg's book. I'm reading it slowly because every passage has wonderful gems in it. It's shocking how in jeopardy our civil liberties are, especially our free speech, and how so many now take free speech and other other civil liberties for granted, and are willing to sell them out.

Amy Alkon at September 23, 2012 8:00 AM

The Mises Institute has made Bastiat's books available at no charge. You can download them here. You can find books by many other authors at the same site. The Institute has made it part of their mission to distribute them as widely as possible.

Karl Sackett at September 23, 2012 8:30 AM

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