The Digital Library of Liberty & Power
incorporating the Guillaumin Collection of the Great Books of Liberty
(E)n général on gouverne trop … (mais) comment s’y prendre pour simplifier une machine administrative compliquée où les intérêts privés ont gagné du terrain sur l’intérêt public, comme une gangrène qui s’avance dans un corps humain lorsqu’elle n’est pas repoussée par le principe de vie qui tend à le conserver ?. Pour guérir cette maladie … Read more
[The Molière Fountain on the rue de Richelieu (down the left). The Guillaumin firm was located at no. 14 rue de Richelieu.] Note: See also the following: my blog post on “A Publishing History of the Guillaumin Firm (1837-1910)” (5 Aug. 2022) here my summary webpage on The Paris School a brief description of the … Read more
Source of Data Benoît Malbranque, “Liste complète des titres publiés par Guillaumin (1837-1910)”, Institut Coppet (janvier 2, 2017) here. David M. Hart, “Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1801-64) and the Guillaumin Publishing Firm (1837-1910)” with my list of their titles. It also contains many links to individual Guillaumin book catalogs which were often appended to the books they … Read more
The Trials and Tribulations of an Editor and Translator [Note: See this page for a list of my writings on the Paris School of Political Economy.] Inevitably there are a number of editorial and translation issues which arise when one attempts to translate, in the case of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), 1 million words of a … Read more