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Front Page  Authors (by Period) Frédéric Bastiat
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Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was one of the leading advocates of free markets and free trade in the mid-19 century. He was inspired by the activities of Richard Cobden and the organization of the Anti-Corn Law League in Britain in the 1840s and tried to mimic their success in France. Bastiat was an elected member of various French political bodies and opposed both protection and the rise of socialist ideas in these forums. His writings for a broader audience were very popular and were quickly translated and republished in the U.S. and throughout Europe. His incomplete magnum opus, Economic Harmonies, is full of insights into the operation of the market and is still of great interest to economists. He died at a young age from cancer of the throat. [The image comes from “The Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection at Duke University.”]
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- author: Armonias Economicas (1858)
- author: The Best of Bastiat (2013)
- author: The Best of Bastiat #1.1 “A Life in Letters” (1819-1850) (2013)
- author: The Best of Bastiat #1.2 “Bastiat the Revolutionary: Part 1” (Feb.-March 1848) (2013)
- author: The Best of Bastiat #1.3 “Bastiat the Revolutionary: Part 2” (June 1848) (2013)
- author: The Best of Bastiat #2.1 “The State” (September 1848) (2013)
- author: The Best of Bastiat #2.2 “Property and Plunder: Fifth Letter” (July 1848) (2013)
- author: The Best of Bastiat #2.3 “The Law” (June 1850) (2013)
- author: The Best of Bastiat #3.1 “The Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles” (October 1845) (2013)
- author: The Best of Bastiat #3.2 “The Broken Window” (July 1850) (2013)
- author: The Best of Bastiat #3.3 “The Utopian” (17 Jan. 1847) (2013)
- author: The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat, in 6 Vols. (2011)
- author: The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 1: The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics (2011)
- author: The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 2: The Law, The State, and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850 (2012)
- author: Economic Harmonies (Boyers trans.) (1850)
- author: Economic Sophisms (1845)
- author: The Law (1850)
- author: Lettres d’un habitant des Landes (1877)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat (1st ed. 1854-55) (1854)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, 7 vols. (1862)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol 1 Correspondance. Mélanges (1st ed. 1855) (1855)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 1 (Correspondance et mélanges) (1862)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 2 Le libre-échange (1st ed. 1855) (1855)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 2 (le Libre-Échange) (1862)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 3 Cobden et la ligue (1st ed. 1854) (1854)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 3 (Cobden et La Ligue) (1864)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 4 (Sophismes économiques et Petits pamphlets I) (1873)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 4 Sophismes économiques. Petits pamphlets I (1st ed. 1854) (1854)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 5 Sophismes économiques. Petits pamphlets II (1st ed. 1854) (1854)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 5 (Sophismes économiques et Petits pamphlets II) (1873)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 6 Harmonies économiques (1st ed. 1855) (1855)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 6 (Harmonies économiques) (1870)
- author: Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 7 (Essais, Ébauches, Correspondance) (1864)
- author: Selected Essays on Political Economy (1848)
Quotations:- Frédéric Bastiat, while pondering the nature of war, concluded that society had always been divided into two classes - those who engaged in productive work and those who lived off their backs (1850) (16 January, 2006)
- Frédéric Bastiat and the state as “la grande fiction à travers laquelle Tout Le Monde s’efforce de vivre aux dépens de Tout Le Monde (1848) (4 October, 2007)
- Frédéric Bastiat on the state as the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else (1848) (9 March, 2009)
- Bastiat asks the fundamental question of political economy: what should be the size of the state? (1850) (10 October, 2010)
- Bastiat on the fact that even in revolution there is an indestructible principle of order in the human heart (1848) (9 October, 2011)
- Bastiat on the scramble for political office (1848) (9 October, 2011)
- Bastiat on the many freedoms that make up liberty (1848) (9 October, 2011)
- Bastiat on the state vs. laissez-faire (1848) (9 October, 2011)
- Bastiat on the spirit of free trade as a reform of the mind itself (1847) (5 August, 2011)
- Bastiat on the most universally useful freedom, namely to work and to trade (1847) (9 October, 2011)
- Bastiat on trade as a the mutual exchange of “a service for another service” (1848) (14 December, 2012)
- Bastiat, the 1830 Revolution, and the Spilling of Wine not Blood (1830) (10 December, 2012)
- Bastiat on the pressing need to dismiss one quarter of the French Army immediately (1850) (5 September, 2012)
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