"As a complete unknown in economics, he submitted a stirring article to the 'Journal des économistes' in 1844, dealing with the influence of protectionism on France and England. It created an immediate sensation ... This response encouraged Bastiat's 'Economic Sophisms' which quickly sold out upon its publication in 1845, and was soon thereafter translatet into English and Italian. (The New Palgrave I, S. 205). 1848 erschien bereits eine Ausgabe in zwei Bänden. ""Nothing is more brilliant, nothing more 'French', in the best sense of the word, than these amusing pamphlets, in which the most delicate irony and the most pitiless logic are combined, as in the famous 'Pétition' (of the candle-makers) ... (which is) a humorous complaint against the sun for spoiling their trade, a petition based on protectionists lines."" (Palgrave I, S. 123). - Durchgängig im unteren Seitendrittel leicht wasserrandig." Preis: 150 EUR