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	Frédéric Bastiat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Because of his stress on the role of consumer demand in initiating economic progress, Bastiat is seen as a forerunner of the Austrian School.
		Additionally, one must examine the decision's effect not only on a single group of people (say candlemakers) or a single industry (say candles), but on all people and all industries in the society as a whole.
		Related to Economic Fallacies is the satirical episode best known as the "Candlemakers' petition" pdfwhich presents itself as a petition from candlemakers to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederic_Bastiat (1020 words)

	Candlemakers' petition
		The Candlemakers' petition is a well known satire of protectionism written and published by Frederic Bastiat in 1845, in which candlemakers[?] and industrialists from other corporations petition the legislative body to make a law to protect their trade from the unfair competition of a foreign power: the sun.
		The text of the petition (http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html), as translated into English.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Candlemakers%27_petition.html (78 words)

	Bastiat's famous Candlestick makers' Petition
		A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting.
		There is no needy resin-collector on the heights of his sand dunes, no poor miner in the depths of his fl pit, who will not receive higher wages and enjoy increased prosperity.
		We anticipate your objections, gentlemen; but there is not a single one of them that you have not picked up from the musty old books of the advocates of free trade.
	bastiat.org /en/petition.html (1262 words)

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	Candlemakers' petition - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Candlemakers' petition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Candlemakers' petition - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Candlemakers' petition.
		Here you will find more informations about Candlemakers' petition.
		* The text of the petition, as translated into English.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Candlemakers-petition.html (144 words)

	Frédéric Bastiat, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Bastiat's "A Petition," usually referred to now as "The Petition of the Candlemakers," displays his rhetorical skill and rakish tone, as this excerpt illustrates:
		We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights and blinds; in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures....
		This reductio ad absurdum of protectionism was so effective that one of the most successful postwar economics textbooks, Economics by Paul A. Samuelson, quotes the candlemakers' petition at the head of the chapter on protectionism.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Bastiat.html (516 words)

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	Frederic Bastiat Biography
		Finally, his friend Gustave de Molinari did publish his foundational work on free market anarchism in 1849, and Bastiat, knowing that, did declare on his death bed that Molinari was his spiritual heir.
		Bastiat is the author of the satirical document best known as the "Candlemakers' petition" which presents itself as a petition from candle-makers to the French government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.
		Bastiat is also the author of The Law, originally published as a pamphlet in 1850.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bastiat_Frederic.html (356 words)

	Candlemakers' petition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The text of the petition, as translated into English.
		The Candlemaker's Petition Audio Book (free download) at FreeAudio.org
		This page was last modified 17:55, 15 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Candlemakers'_petition (44 words)

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	Ken Schoolland: Immigration: Controversies, Libertarian Principles & Modern Abolition
		One of Bastiat's most famous essays was of candlemakers who wanted to ban light and heat from the sun in order to protect local industry.
		"Candlemakers Petition", Frédéric Bastiat did not address the issue of immigration directly.
		But he did address issues of liberty and the motives of protectionist elements, special interests that sought the use of law to take liberties from some in order to grant benefits to themselves.
	www.jonathangullible.com /media/CandleMakers.htm (5990 words)

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		Read his "petition" on behalf of the candlemakers and other purveyors of artificial lighting.
		We candlemakers are suffering from the unfair competition of a foreign rival.
		"Here is our petition: Please pass a law ordering the covering of all windows and skylights and other openings, holes, and cracks through which the light of the sun is able to enter houses.
	www.effwa.org /main/page.php?number=70 (627 words)

	Jeff Jacoby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If you've ever been seduced by the anticompetitive laments of the steel lobby -- or the supercomputer manufacturers -- or the dairy farmers -- or the labor unions -- you owe it to yourself to take a look at this marvelous spoof.
		Actually, the author of "The Candlemakers' Petition" didn't really write it with steel or automobiles in mind: Fredric Bastiat published it in 1845.
		But it comes as no surprise that a lampoon penned in the 19th century by the man who has been called "perhaps the clearest and most entertaining economist the profession has ever known" loses none of its bite when read in the context of 21st-century trade restrictions.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /jeff/jacoby121101.asp (911 words)

	BrothersJudd Blog: WHERE HAVE ALL THE BLACKSMITHS GONE?:
		The Candlemakers' Petition: An Economic Fable (Frederic Bastiat)
		Be good enough, honourable deputies, to take our request seriously, and do not reject it without at least hearing the reasons that we have to advance in its support.
		If the candlemakers had a union, the Democrats would at least consider this seriously.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/003945.html (264 words)

	Free Trade
		Bastiat's petition, published in 1874 in English, is a satire arguing that France would be better off if it had a law forbidding buildings to be lit with natural light.
		Without windows, Bastiat tells the reader, there would be a huge demand for artificial light, and a great many people would benefit from this demand.
		All the processes of candlemaking, including agriculture because tallow comes from sheep and cattle, would benefit.
	ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu /econ/International/InternTrade.html (769 words)

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		Here is his "Petition of Candlemakers" which discusses the idiocy of protectionist tarrifs.
		Every week, twice a week at the request of our client, we spend half a dozen process servers to a number of locations in the US to retrieve any new petition filings at the Department of Labour offices, which are a matter of public record.
		In the last 10 years, when both Canada Post and BC Ferries went on strike, I've immediatley called both the Post Office and the Ferry Administration to ask how I can be a scab.
	westernstandard.blogs.com /shotgun/2004/11/the_reality_of_.html (1465 words)

	Eidelblog: The error of protectionist economics
		Bastiat wrote "The Candlemakers' Petition" to demonstrate the fallacy of protecting domestic industry.
		In his satire, the French government was asked to pass laws requiring people to close all doors and windows -- in fact, seal off any opening that sunlight might come through.
		More candlemakers will be needed, and since they will require tallow, this will create more jobs involving the raising cows and sheep.
	eidelblog.blogspot.com /2005/05/error-of-protectionist-economics.html (1830 words)

	Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek called him "a publicist of genius." Bastiat wrote brilliant essays and satires showing why protectionism is plunder.
		His most famous satire is a petition by candlemakers who want the government to prevent unfair competition from the sun by forcing everybody to block out sunlight.
		Bastiat, who became a good friend of the English free traders Richard Cobden and John Bright, launched the free trade movement in France.
	www.self-gov.org /celebrities/frederic-bastiat.html (438 words)

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	Frogpod: Economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bastiat was able to put economic theory into words that were true and humorous.
		His petition on candlemakers goes on and on about this foreign cometitor to candlemakers who has infinite resources and takes away half of the candlemakers' business.
		This competitor has an unfair advantage, competes in every market, and is able to effectively shut the candlemakers down.
	www.frogpod.com /frogpod/economics (184 words)

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	Article on the Life of Frederic Bastiat
		More than any other person before or since, he exposed economic fallacies with a clarity, simplicity and humor that left opponents with no place to hide.
		The most famous example of Bastiat's satire was his petition to the French parliament on behalf of candlemakers and related industries.
		He was seeking relief from ``ruinous competition of a foreign rival who works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price.'' The foreign rival was the sun.
	www.house.gov /paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr072601B.htm (1146 words)

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	ISIL -- Freedom Network News -- ISIL World Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He had seen snippets of Bastiat's famous "Petition of the Candlemakers" in economics textbooks, and then had read a putdown of Bastiat by economist Joseph Schumpeter who commented that Bastiat had been "a brilliant economic journalist, but no economic theorist".
		Ken, who is also the author of "The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible," the acclaimed libertarian fable which has been published in 23 languages, opened with a clever parody of Bastiat's famous "Petition of the Candlemakers", substituting a call for the abolition of new babies to stop future competition with the current labor force!
		Bastiat's original "Petition" had employed a powerful use of satire to expose the abuse of the law-making power of government in benefiting special interests (at the forced expense of everyone else).
	www.isil.org /resources/fnn/2001oct/dax-conference-report.html (8774 words)

	Open Source and the Obligation to Recycle
		I'm running a petition asking software copyright holders to do exactly this with their older and discontinued software.
		Please stop by and sign the petition, and if you have any specific companies you'd like the petition sent to, or specific programs you'd like requested, email the details to me and I'll add them to the list.
		A wonderful parody of this dead-wrong idea can be found in the satire of the 19th century french writer F. Bastiat, who composed a "petition" from candlemakers for relief from their unfair competitior, the sun.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/wlg/968 (5468 words)

	Chapter 10—Monopoly and Competition (continued)
		If this were true, success or failure in business would depend on the mode of advertising only.
		However, nobody believes that any kind of advertising would have succeeded in making the candlemakers hold the field against the electric bulb, the horsedrivers against the motorcars.
		But this implies that the quality of the commodity advertised is instrumental in bringing about the success of an advertising campaign.
	www.mises.org /rothbard/mes/chap10e.asp (8356 words)

	Guest editorial: Microsoft's Ironic Valentine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Bastiat's satirical petition proposed passing a law requiring the closing of "all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses." He argued that protecting certain domestic industries against such unfair competition (free sunlight), would be good not only for the industries themselves, but all of France.
		The patent absurdity of Bastiat's proposal (available here, among other locations) translates perfectly from French to English, from the 19th century to the 21st, and from candlemakers to software producers.
	www.linuxdevices.com /articles/AT4296019449.html (1307 words)

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		His writings explain the laissez-faire lessons of economists like Adam Smith and Jean-Baptiste Say with clarity and humor.
		For example, in his "candlemakers' petition," Bastiat proposes that government end "unfair competition" by blotting out the sun.
		The point is to ridicule protectionists who seek to stop the "flood" of "cheap foreign products." Ending the sun's competition with man-made illumination would indeed increase the demand for candles, but consumers lose far more than producers gain.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/capency.doc (6307 words)

	Leonard E. Read, Crusader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It has since sold a half million copies and is still one of FEE's best sellers.
		FEE has also published newly translated versions of Bastiat's other books, Economic Sophisms, a collection of short pieces on free trade (most notably "The Candlemakers' Petition," a satirical attack on tariffs), Economic Harmonies, and Selected Essays in Political Economy.
		Bastiat's valuable and readable works might have been forgotten were it not for Read.
	www.libertyhaven.com /thinkers/leonarderead/leonardcrusader.shtml (2656 words)

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