Frédéric Bastiat

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A Chronology of Bastiat’s Life and Work (1801-1850)

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Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Map of Les Landes in SW France
A Reader’s Guide to the Works of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)

Created: 17 July, 2015
Updated: 22 June 2017 (updated to include material from CW4); corrected 6 Ja. 2018

Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Tite Page of Economic Sophisms II (1848) Tite Page of Economic Harmonies (1st ed., 1850)
Bastiat’s Economic Thought

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Frédéric Bastiat Subject Area: Economics

Source: Introduction to Bastiat's Economic Harmonies, trans by W. Hayden Boyers, ed. George B. de Huszar, introduction by Dean Russell (Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for…

Bastiat, Plenty and Dearth

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Essays on Bastiat Essays on Economics: 19thC French Political Economy in Lalor's Cyclopedia

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Economics School of Thought: 19thC French Liberalism

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Bastiat, Spoliation by Law

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Essays on Bastiat Essays on Economics: 19thC French Political Economy in Lalor's Cyclopedia

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Economics School of Thought: 19thC French Liberalism

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Bastiat’s Theory of Class: The Plunderers vs. the Plundered

[This will be part of an Appendix to volume 3 of The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat which will be published by Liberty Fund later in the year (2016). Volumes 1 and 2 are already online.]

Cato Book Forum: Bastiat vol. 1

Cato Book Forum The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 1:
The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics
(Liberty Fund, 2011).

Dr. David M. Hart, Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Cato Institute, Washington D.C.

Did Bastiat say “when goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will”?

“When goods don’t cross borders, Soldiers will".
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Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) School of Thought: 19thC French Classical Liberalism

Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Further Aspects of Bastiat’s Life and Thought

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Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
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Introduction

In each of the volumes of Liberty Fund’s Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat we have included introductions, glossaries,…

Hazlitt on Bastiat

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Frédéric Bastiat Subject Area: Economics

Source: Introduction to Bastiat's Economic Sophisms, trans. Arthur Goddard, introduction by Henry Hazlitt (Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education, 1996).

Quotations by Bastiat on the State and the Free Market

Source: Quotations about Liberty and Power

Copyright: The text is in the public domain, unless otherwise stated in the text.

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Resources on Bastiat

Resources on Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)

My dear Frédéric [FB writing to himself],

Like you I love all forms of freedom; and among these, the one that is the most universally…

Selected Quotations from Bastiat’s Collected Works vol. 1

Selected Quotations from Bastiat’s Collected Works, vol. 1: The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics (2011)

Sheldon Richman on Bastiat

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Works by Frederic Bastiat School of Thought: 19thC French Liberalism

Source: The Law, trans. Dean Russell, introduction by Walter E. Williams, foreword by Sheldon Richman (Irvington-on-Hudson NY: Foundation for…

Walter Williams on Bastiat

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Works by Frederic Bastiat School of Thought: 19thC French Liberalism

Source: The Law, trans. Dean Russell, introduction by Walter E. Williams, foreword by Sheldon Richman (Irvington-on-Hudson NY: Foundation for…

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