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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]
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 ...
Bastiat is not addressing production – he is addressing the stock of wealth. In other words, Bastiat does not merely look at the immediate but at the longer effects of breaking the window. Bastiat takes into account the consequences of breaking the window for society as a whole, rather than for just one group. [3] [4]
La Loi may refer to: . La Loi (newspaper), a daily newspaper published from Paris, France The Law (novel) (French: La Loi), a 1957 novel by Roger Vailland The Law (Bastiat book) (French: La Loi), an 1850 book by Frédéric Bastiat
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
As a 2nd and separate problem: Some info in the article "The Law (1850 book)" would be lost, and I don't think there's any way to fit that sort of minutia into THIS (a more generalized) article, and yet I found some of that info that you're proposing to delete to be valuable (e.g. the list of contemporaries Bastiat's The Law talks about is very ...
Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850): French classical liberal theorist, political economist and author of The Law. Adin Ballou (1803–1890): American Christian anarchist. [2] William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879): American abolitionist, libertarian and journalist, who influenced Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and anti-slavery crusader. [2]
Frédéric Bastiat 's main treatise on property can be found in chapter 8 of his book "Economic Harmonies" (1850). [44] In a radical departure from traditional property theory, he defines property, not as a physical object, but rather as a relationship between people concerning a thing.