Frédéric Bastiat
romanian
© Institutul Ludwig von Mises - România
What is the relationship between Law and Property? Is property a creation of the law, or, on the contrary, the law is the one which derives its own existence from the existence of property? What are the consequences that follow, in each case, from the answer to this question? In Propriété et Loi – probably the must succinct expression of the fundamental ideas of the famous French economist – Frédéric Bastiat exposes, in a way which in contemporary terms is very similar to public choice school analyses, the social unrest and disorder produced by the idea that property is an artificial institution, created, maintained and defined by statue law, while at the same time he demystifies the fatal propensity of all the adversary of a private property order towards what Friedrich von Hayek will later describe as „social constructivism”.