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    1808 when Frédéric was seven years old. His father moved inland to the town of Mugron, with Frédéric following soon afterward. The Bastiat estate in Mugron...
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  • The Law (French: La Loi) is an 1850 book by Frédéric Bastiat. It was written at Mugron two years after the third French Revolution and a few months before...
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    existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." (Frédéric Bastiat, The Law, 1850) Conservatism subscribes to the concept that freedom...
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    The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay "That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen"...
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    School theorist associated with French laissez-faire economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille. Born in Liège, Wallonia, Molinari's critique...
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  • August 2005 Frédéric Bastiat, political economist and member of the French assembly Frédéric Dutoit (born 1956), French politician Frédéric Mathieu (born...
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  • is dead. — Jonathan Swift, The Examiner (November 9, 1710) In 1845, Frédéric Bastiat expressed an early notion of the law: We must confess that our adversaries...
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    rights would be amply compensated by participation in social power." Frédéric Bastiat severely criticized Rousseau in several of his works, most notably...
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  • numerous fundamental reforms in Dutch politics. Frédéric Bastiat (France, 1801–1850) Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political...
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    Liberalism: The Economic Contribution of Frédéric Bastiat", Routledge, 2011, p. 118. Roche, Charles George. "Frederic Bastiat: A Man Alone". Arlington House, 1971...
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    economists and reformers: Frédéric Bastiat, Richard Cobden, and Daniel O'Connell.: 35  Passy was most impressed by Bastiat, who developed his ideas from...
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  • including the works of Adam Smith, Anne Turgot, Jean-Baptiste Say, Frédéric Bastiat and François Quesnay. While details regarding Richard Cantillon's life...
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    critique of an illustration used by Frédéric Bastiat in order to explain the nature of interest and profit. Bastiat had asked his readers to consider James...
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    that resulted were forcibly crushed. According to French economist Frédéric Bastiat, the poor condition of the railway system can largely be attributed...
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  • 20th-century monetarist theory, the 19th-century economist and philosopher Frédéric Bastiat expressed the idea that trade deficits actually were a manifestation...
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  • inspired by the 19th-century French philosopher Frédéric Bastiat and his defense of liberty. Bastiat's use of satire and allegory enabled him to relate...
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  • Tax inheritance poll progressive property Theft Scholars (key work) Frédéric Bastiat The Law Ronald Coase Friedrich Engels The Origin of the Family, Private...
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    exposition", while Congressman Ron Paul ranks it with the works of Frédéric Bastiat and Friedrich Hayek. Hayek himself praised the work, saying that "Henry...
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    instrumental in promulgating the ideas of the school. Key thinkers include Frédéric Bastiat, Jean-Baptiste Say, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Julien Freund, Pierre...
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  • Economy is an 1850 book by the French classical liberal economist Frédéric Bastiat, in which the author applauds the power and ingenuity of the intricate...
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  • written by Henry Hazlitt and first published in 1946. It is based on Frédéric Bastiat's essay Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (English: "What is Seen...
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    Tax inheritance poll progressive property Theft Scholars (key work) Frédéric Bastiat The Law Ronald Coase Friedrich Engels The Origin of the Family, Private...
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    ostensibly due to British tariffs and taxes. According to a slogan of Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), "When goods cannot cross borders, armies will." On the...
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    of productive labor. Economists have differing views of laziness. Frédéric Bastiat argues that idleness is the result of people focusing on the pleasant...
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    Tax inheritance poll progressive property Theft Scholars (key work) Frédéric Bastiat The Law Ronald Coase Friedrich Engels The Origin of the Family, Private...
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Muhammad Asad Hayk Asatryan Mikhail Bakunin Frédéric Bastiat Samuel Taylor Coleridge Juan Donoso Cortés Friedrich Engels Julius...
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    In many ways, he can be described as the American counterpart to Frédéric Bastiat. He spoke out against the inflationist ideas of William Jennings Bryan...
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    people buy broccoli." Reason Foundation issued an annual Bastiat Prize (named after Frédéric Bastiat) to recognize writing that "best demonstrates the importance...
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  • – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1837) 1801 – Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and theorist (d. 1850) 1803 – John Newton Brown,...
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  • Tax inheritance poll progressive property Theft Scholars (key work) Frédéric Bastiat The Law Ronald Coase Friedrich Engels The Origin of the Family, Private...
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