"Bastiat was indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable and devastating demolitions of protectionism and of all forms of government subsidy and control. He was a truly scintillating advocate of an unrestricted free market". Murray Rothbard nostr:note1wp4g2ukst5w8tvwymnpyzrtffhrgalggneagw2uulh4z68al3lysmgdk8f