Front Page Titles (by Subject) Gustave de Molinari

Gustave de Molinari

1819 - 1912

About the Author

Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) was the leading representative of the laissez-faire school of classical liberalism in France in the second half of the 19th century and was still campaigning against protectionism, statism, militarism, colonialism, and socialism into his 90s on the eve of the First World War. As he said shortly before his death, his classical liberal views had remained the same throughout his long life but the world around him had managed to turn full circle in the meantime.

In The Library:

• author: Cours d’Économie Politique 2 vols. (1854)
• author: Cours d’Économie Politique vol. 1 (1854)
• author: Cours d’Économie Politique vol. 2 (1854)
• author: Notions fondamentales d’Économie politique et programme économique (1891)
• author: The Society of Tomorrow: A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization (1899)
• author: Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare: Entretiens sur les lois économiques et défense de la propriété (1849)

Quotations:

• Gustave de Molinari argues that political parties are like “actual armies” who are trained to seize power and reward their supporters with jobs and special privileges (1904) (12 January, 2009)
• Molinari defends the right to property against the socialists who want to overthrow it, and the conservatives who defend it poorly (1849) (3 March, 2012)
• Molinari appeals to socialists to join him in marching down “the broad, well-trodden highway of liberty” (1848) (15 February, 2012)
• Molinari on the elites who benefited from the State of War (1899) (7 December, 2012)