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Frédéric Bastiat’s theory of plunder (1850)
When a portion of wealth passes from the person who has acquired it, without his consent and with...
Frédéric Bastiat asks what came first, property or law? (1850)
It is not because men have enacted laws that personality, freedom, and property exist. On the con...
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)
L'État, c'est la grande fiction à travers laquelle Tout Le Monde s'efforce de vivre aux dépens de...
Frédéric Bastiat argues that socialism hides its true plunderous nature under a facade of nice sounding words like “fraternity” and “equality” (1850)
For all its theories about systems and (all) its efforts it appears that socialism, however indul...
Bastiat on trade as a the mutual exchange of “a service for another service” (1848)
What makes a man refuse an exchange? It is his knowledge that the item being offered to him would...
Bastiat’s Malthusian theory of the growth of the state (1847)
And yet the state, which, after all, is composed of men (although nowadays this is denied, at lea...
Bastiat on disbanding the standing army and replacing it with local militias (1847)
The Utopian politician: “[Cutting tariffs] have given me something even more precious.” His advis...
Frédéric Bastiat on the state as the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else (1848)
As, on the one hand, it is certain that we all address some such request to the state, and, on th...
Bastiat’s has a utopian dream of drastically reducing the size of the French state (1847)
[The King] “… Is this all?” [[Utopian Prime Minister] “I have scarcely begun.” “I beg you, let me...
Bastiat on the state vs. laissez-faire (1848)
Laissez-faire! I will begin by saying, in order to avoid any ambiguity, that laissez-faire is use...
Bastiat asks the fundamental question of political economy: what should be the size of the state? (1850)
The first question to be asked, then, as we begin the study of political science is this: What ar...
Bastiat on the scramble for political office (1848)
All the newspapers, without exception, are speaking out against the scramble for office of which ...
Bastiat criticizes the socialists of wanting to be the “Great Mechanic” who would run the “social machine” in which ordinary people were merely so many lifeless cogs and wheels (1848)
The moving parts are men, that is, beings capable of learning, reflecting, reasoning, of making e...
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)
… [in the ancient world] a very small number of men managed to live without working, supported by...
Bastiat on the most universally useful freedom, namely to work and to trade (1847)
Like you I love all forms of freedom; and among these, the one that is the most universally usefu...
Bastiat on the many freedoms that make up liberty (1848)
We may be distressed to see writers delight in stirring up all forms of evil passion. However, to...
Bastiat on the need for urgent political and economic reform (1848)
So, as we have said, two systems (of reform) , discussed at length by polemicists, now confront o...
Bastiat on the fact that even in revolution there is an indestructible principle of order in the human heart (1848)
When we go through the streets of Paris, which are scarcely wide enough to contain the throngs of...
Bastiat, the 1830 Revolution, and the Spilling of Wine not Blood (1830)
The 5th (August) at midnight I was expecting blood but it was only wine that was spilt. The citad...
Bastiat on the spirit of free trade as a reform of the mind itself (1847)
What immense good our journal might do if it contrasted the inanity and danger of current policy ...