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Bastiat's most famous work is The Law, [11] originally published as a pamphlet in 1850. It defines a just system of laws and then demonstrates how such law facilitates a free society. In The Law, Bastiat wrote that everyone has a right to protect "his person, his liberty, and his property". The state should be only a "substitution of a common ...
Harmonies of Political 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 social mechanism, "every atom of which ... is an animated thinking being, endued with marvelous energy, and with that principle of all morality, all dignity, all progress, the exclusive attribute of man - LIBERTY."
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 his death of tuberculosis at age 49. The essay was influenced by John Locke's Second Treatise on Government and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. [1]
Frédéric Bastiat (France, 1801–1850) Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. Some literature: La Loi , 1849; Harmonies économiques (Economic Harmonies), 1850; Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (What is Seen and What is Not Seen), 1850
Bastiat takes into account the consequences of breaking the window for society as a whole, rather than for just one group. [3] [4] Austrian theorists cite this fallacy, saying it is a common element of popular thinking. The 20th century American economist Henry Hazlitt devoted a chapter to the fallacy in his book Economics in One Lesson. [5]
19th century philosopher Frederic Bastiat summarized the conflict between these negative and positive rights by saying: M. de Lamartine wrote me one day: "Your doctrine is only the half of my program; you have stopped at liberty; I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second half of your program will destroy the first half."
Key thinkers include Frédéric Bastiat, Jean-Baptiste Say, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Julien Freund, Pierre Manent and Gustave de Molinari. The school voraciously defended free trade and laissez-faire. They were primary opponents of interventionist and protectionist ideas. This made the French school a forerunner of the modern Austrian school.
Books. The Law (Bastiat book), an 1850 book by Frédéric Bastiat; The Law, a 1957 novel by Roger Vailland; The Law, a 2022 novella by Jim Butcher; Film and ...