All Posts Tagged With: "Frederic Bastiat"

The Snow Plowers’ Petition

Looking for the unseen effects of economic policy is the beginning of wisdom.

9Feb2012 | Steven Horwitz | 10 comments | Continued

Bastiat’s Letters Published

Frederic Bastiat is FEE’s godfather and a favorite of freedom-philosophy advocates everywhere. So it is fantastic that Liberty Fund will be publishing Bastiat’s collected works under the able editorship of Jacques de Guenin and David M. Hart. The first volume to arrive is The Man and the Statesman, a collection of letters never before available [...]

26Jul2011 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

The Importance of Subjectivism in Economics

After many years, Frédéric Bastiat remains a hero to libertarians. No mystery there. He made the case for freedom and punctured the arguments for state socialism with clarity and imagination. He spoke to lay readers with great effect. Bastiat loved the market economy, and badly wanted it to blossom in full—in France and everywhere else. [...]

23Mar2011 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

Tariffs are Legal Plunder

Everybody has an issue he reacts to most intensely. [Frederic] Bastiat’s was tariffs. And his most barbed comments were directed against those who favored governmental protection of national industry from foreign competition. He thought this legal method of cheating consumers by keeping prices above the market was a perfect example of how governments plunder their [...]

7Jul2010 | Dean Russell | 1 comment | Continued

R. C. Hoiles and Public Schooling

In a letter dated May 23, 1946, the libertarian publisher R. C. Hoiles wrote to Leonard E. Read, who would establish the Foundation for Economic Education later that same year. Hoiles advised Read on what he believed was the underlying cause of America’s alarming shift from individual liberty toward socialism: I am inclined to think [...]

20May2010 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | Continued

Richman & Bastiat in Poland

Here’s part one of my lecture at the PAFERE conference on Bastiat in Warsaw.Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5

4Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | Continued

Bastiat in Poland

Last week I mentioned that I traveled to Warsaw, Poland, to participate in the Liberty Weekend Devoted to the Life and Legacy of Frédéric Bastiat. I can report now that the conference, sponsored by PAFERE, the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education, was a smashing success. Poland has a solid core of freedom-philosophy advocates, [...]

25Sep2009 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

TGIF: Bastiat in Poland

Last week I mentioned that I traveled to Warsaw, Poland, to participate in the Liberty Weekend Devoted to the Life and Legacy of Frédéric Bastiat. I can report now that the conference, sponsored by PAFERE, the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education, was a smashing success. The rest of TGIF is here.

25Sep2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Monsieur Bastiat, Call Your Office

Tomorrow I’ll lecture at the Liberty Weekend Dedicated to Frédéric Bastiat, sponsored by the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education (PAFERE) in Warsaw. Preparing for my visit, I reread  Bastiat’s great book The Law (online in PDF format here and for sale here). Oh do we need Bastiat today! The Law is the kind [...]

18Sep2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Taxation as Vandalism

Imagine a small town with only a few small businesses. The best, most prosperous business is the general store, which sells citizens many of their daily necessities. Just across the street is a shop that sells and installs windows. Unlike the general store, the window shop is not doing well at all. The town is [...]

20Jan2009 | Lachlan Markay | 21 comments | Continued

Commerce, Markets, and Peace: Richard Cobden’s Enduring Lessons

Edward Stringham is a visiting associate professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. A longer version of this article won second prize (faculty division) in the 2003 Olive W. Garvey Fellowship Program for the Independent Institute and is reprinted in Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Interventionism, edited by Robert Higgs and [...]

1Oct2008 | Edward P. Stringham | 0 comments | Continued

The Free Market’s Invisibility Problem

Joseph Packer is a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Communication. Advocates of liberty face an invisibility problem, first identified by nineteenth-century French libertarian Frédéric Bastiat in the appropriately titled essay “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen.” Through a simple story, Bastiat exposed the fallacy that later underlay Keynesian economics. [...]

1Apr2008 | Joseph Packer | 2 comments | Continued

A Government Program for All

My economics students often ask why, if the economic theory I present is correct, there is so much intervention in the economy. It reminds me of an observation made by Henry Hazlitt in Economics in One Lesson: It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the [...]

1Dec2006 | Paul Cwik | 2 comments | Continued

For Equality; Against Privilege

The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for equality, against privilege. Intuitively, this should sound uncontroversial. We just finished celebrating the Fourth of July, which commemorates the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson’s elegant statement of the freedom philosophy proclaims: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. [...]

7Jul2006 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | Continued

So Much to Read!

A student recently asked me to recommend books that will help her to better understand the economy and society. I love such questions because they give me the opportunity to recall books that were especially important in my own intellectual development, and to reflect anew on their messages. So here I list the ten non [...]

1Apr2006 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued

FEE at 60: Self-Improvement and First Principles

March 7 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) by the late Leonard
E. Read, with the assistance of a handful of businessmen, economists, and journalists who were all dedicated to the ideas of individual liberty and the free market. From its beginning FEE has been more than what nowadays is called a policy-oriented think tank. Its work is based on the understanding that right thinking on policy issues is impossible unless people have a clear appreciation of the principles of freedom, private property, free enterprise, the rule of law, and constitutionally limited government.

1Mar2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued

Basis of Liberty

In one of his fables Aesop said: “A horse and a stag,
feeding together in a rich meadow, began fighting
over which should have the best grass.The stag with
his sharp horns got the better of the horse. So the horse
asked the help of man. And man agreed, but suggested
that his help might be more effective if he were permitted
to ride the horse and guide him as he thought best.
So the horse permitted man to put a saddle on his back
and a bridle on his head.Thus they drove the stag from
the meadow. But when the horse asked man to remove
the bridle and saddle and set him free, man answered, ‘I
never before knew what a useful drudge you are. And
now that I have found what you are good for, you may
rest assured that I will keep you to it.’”

1Nov2005 | Dean Russell | 0 comments | Continued
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