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Economic Sophisms by Frédéric Bastiat. Economic Sophisms examines the central arguments used to justify protectionist policies and argues for the supremacy of free trade. In a series of concise, witty essays (the ‘sophisms’), Bastiat explains that apparent wealth created by restricting trade is illusory, because producers’ immediate interests are anti-social when misaligned with consumers, and that wealth arises from abundance, exchange, and the liberty to specialize. The book contrasts consumption and production, obstacles and causes, and shows how tariffs, differential duties, and balance-of-trade claims fail under analysis that traces effects through time. Bastiat also discusses topics such as the misuse of nominal prices, the difference between production conditions and sale conditions, and how innovations lower prices for consumers while stimulating new employment. The work is a foundational critique of mercantilist thinking, arguing that competition and exchange raise general prosperity and that state intervention typically harms the very people it pretends to protect.