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	Frédéric Bastiat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bastiat had caught tuberculosis, probably during his tours throughout France to promote libertarian ideas, and that illness eventually prevented him from making further speeches (particularly at the legislative assembly to which he was elected in 1848 and 1849) and took his life.
		Bastiat did not take part in the anarchist-minarchist debate (he arguably died too early for that); he seems to have considered the State as something inevitable as far as immediate practical things matter, something that ought to be taken into account as long as it existed.
		Bastiat was the author of the satirical document best known as the "Candlemakers' petition" pdfwhich 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederic_Bastiat (417 words)

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		Bastiat definitely embodies the "Harmonic" school of libertarians, who consider utilitarian and natural law arguments as two complementary aspects of a same world.
		Bastiat did not take part in the anarchist vs minarchist debate (he arguably died too early for that); he seems to have considered State as something inevitable as far as immediate practical things matter, something that ought to be taken into account as long as it existed.
		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.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/frederic_bastiat.html (323 words)

	Frederic Bastiat's debate with Proudhon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In February 1849, Frederic Bastiat wrote an essay Capital et Rente (available in English as Capital and Interest).
		Bastiat replied, and Chevé decided to publish the reply, with a counter-reply by Proudhon.
		Bastiat wrote a last reply, but it was not published by La Voix du Peuple; instead, they published the 13 first letters of the debate as a book Intérêt et Principal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederic_Bastiat's_debate_with_Proudhon (286 words)

	The life of Frederic Bastiat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Claude Frederic Bastiat was born in Bayonne, a small provincial town on the French side of the Pyrenees along the shore of the Bay of Biscay sometime in June 1801 (some biographers give the exact date as June 19, others as the 30th).
		Frederic's mother died in 1808 and immediately after her death his father moved the family to an even smaller town to the north of Bayonne.
		Bastiat was not drawn to business and by 1824 he was entertaining thoughts of travelling to Paris to further his formal education, it was at this time that his grandfather summoned him to the estate in Mugron and Bastiat had to shelve his plans.
	www.subir.com /bastiat/bio.html (664 words)

	Frédéric Bastiat (1801-50).
		Bastiat was of the view that those who subscribe to socialism subscribe to putting in place mechanisms, a philanthropic tyranny, which would but force the human race (a futile effort) to behave as the social engineers think the human race ought to behave as opposed to how it behaves by nature.
		Bastiat was as impressed with the English writers, doubtlessly, as much as were the French political writers that had proceeded him.
		Though Bastiat's first appeared on the public stage clutching a brief for free trade he was to soon trot out his more general arguments about the harmful forces of government, no matter who ran it or in whose interests it was run.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Bastiat.htm (3682 words)

	Frederic Bastiat
		Bastiat lived in France from 1801-1850, though the vast majority of his work was produced in the last six years of his life.
		Claude Frederic Bastiat believed in the freedom of markets with a fervour, this belief would not permit him to entertain thoughts of fine-tuning economies (if he were to admit the existence of such a thing as an "economy" that is).
		Bastiat's understanding of economics would not permit him to work in a moral void, one of his most common arguments was an appeal to justice and he never lost sight of the position of the consumer and the morality of institutions, laws and ideologies.
	subir.asianbiker.com /bastiat (685 words)

	Frédéric Bastiat: Two Hundred Years On
		Bastiat asks "whether the right to property is not one of those rights which, far from springing from positive law, are prior to the law and are the reason for its existence.
		Bastiat notes that in the policy debates of his time, it was common for opponents of economic liberty to say, in effect, "Oh, we accept your point in general, but the case of the weavers, the oil producers, or whomever, things are different." This amounted to saying there are "no absolute principles" (Essays, p.
		Bastiat writes: "The supporters of the abuse are able to cite specific facts; they can name the particular persons, as well as their suppliers and workers, who will be injured by the reform - while the reformer, poor devil, can refer only to the general good that is to be gradually diffused among the masses.
	www.mises.org /bastiat200.asp (5712 words)

	THE LAW by Frederic Bastiat
		Bastiat states that rights of life, liberty and property justify the use of force when one is faced with force (or the threat of force) as against his person or property (self defence).
		Bastiat explains that a government's authority to use force is delegated to it by the citizens whose behaviour it governs: accordingly, government is to use force only to protect the life, liberty and property of those it governs.
		Bastiat states that when government steps outside of the role of protector, and initiates the coercive use of force against an individual, the law is perverted.
	www.mondopolitico.com /library/thelaw/mpintro.htm (589 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bastiat is best remembered for his tongue-in-cheek cliché, "The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." Frédéric Bastiat opens his landmark treatise on the law with natural law premises acknowledging that life, liberty and property are the gift of God.
		Bastiat saw it as a duty to rise to the occasion as a statesmen and economist, and he sought to diagnose and analyze the socialist fallacies and the logic of legal plunder in his various writings.
		Bastiat remains a staunch defender of the true principles of the law, and his work gives our generation a means of diagnosing the problems of contemporary civil society and effectuating a meaningful restoration of the law to its proper function.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1572460733?v=glance (2669 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Claude-Frederic Bastiat
		He was the son of Pierre Bastiat, whose father had founded at Bayonne a business house that prospered in consequence of the franchise granted this port by the Treaty of Versailles, but ceased to flourish under the prohibitory regime of the Empire.
		Bastiat belonged to the Liberal school and enunciated its principles on the following liens: "Let men work, trade, learn, form partnerships, act and react upon one another, since according to the decrees of Providence, naught save order, harmony, and progress can spring from their intelligent spontaneity".
		Bastiat, in Journal des economistes, XXVII, 15 Feb., 1851; Macleod in Dict.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02345b.htm (557 words)

	Frédéric Bastiat: World-Class Economic Educator - Economic Insights - FRB Dallas
		Bastiat was usually outvoted and sometimes ignored by this fervent collection of communists and socialists, followers of every fashionable anti-free trade thinker of the period.
		Bastiat saw the distinction clearly, while the protectionists, relying on the old mercantilist doctrine that money is wealth, failed to grasp the consequences of this view.
		Bastiat wrote that "the state is that fiction by which we all seek to live at one another's expense." A great deal of wealth has been sacrificed in many nations in an ongoing and failed attempt to square this particular circle.
	www.dallasfed.org /research/ei/ei9801.html (3062 words)

	LibertyGuide.com - Frederic Bastiat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Claude Frederic Bastiat was a liberal French political economist who taught that there is a natural social harmony that emerges from the unhindered exchanges of free people, and that interference with this order prevents the existence of new value and harms society in ways that are quite real, although "unseen."
		Bastiat's defense of free exchange in his Economic Sophisms (1845) is celebrated for the clarity and imagination of his arguments and thought experiments.
		In The Law (1850), Bastiat argues with characteristic brevity that the authority of law is grounded in human nature, and that human nature requires liberty and property to make proper use of the material environment.
	www.theihs.org /libertyguide/people.php/75835.html (365 words)

	Frédéric Bastiat
		Frédéric Bastiat was born in a Bayonne, a tiny French town on the Bay of Biscay.
		Frederic was now the heir to a large estate and his interest in modern technological methods of farming inspired him.
		Bastiat's popularity was due to his razor sharp wit and his use of satire to ridicule his socialist opponents.
	www.fnf.org.za /Liberal_Thinkers/bastiat.htm (1244 words)

	Frédéric Bastiat, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Joseph Schumpeter described Bastiat nearly a century after his death as "the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived." Orphaned at the age of nine, Bastiat tried his hand at commerce, farming, and insurance sales.
		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:
		Friedrich Hayek credits Bastiat with this important insight: if we judge economic policy solely by its immediate effects, we will miss all of its unintended and longer-run effects and will undermine economic freedom, which delivers benefits that are not part of anyone's conscious design.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Bastiat.html (516 words)

	Bastiat, Annotated Bibliography, by Sheldon Richman: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Bastiat lost the original manuscript, rewrote it, but was displeased with his effort and burned the second manuscript.
		In its clarity and brevity it is an achievement to behold.
		Bastiat was neither the first nor the last political economist to recommend a free society.
	www.econlib.org /library/Bastiat/BastiatBib.html (2334 words)

	Biography of Frederic Bastiat
		Bastiat continued to hone his arguments in favor of economic freedom by writing a second essay in opposition to all domestic taxes on wine, entitled "The Tax and the Vine," and a third essay opposing all taxes on land and all forms of trade restrictions.
		Bastiat's Economic Harmonies explained why the opposite is true that the interests of mankind are essentially harmonious if they can be cultivated in a free society where government confines its responsibilities to suppressing thieves, murderers, and special-interest groups who seek to use the state as a means of plundering their fellow citizens.
		Bastiat is perhaps best known for his work in the field of political economy the study of the interaction between the economy and the state as opposed to pure economic theory.
	www.mises.org /fredericbastiat.asp (3033 words)

	Foldvary on Frédéric Bastiat
		Bastiat ridicules the concept that creating jobs is the greatest economic deed.
		This illustrates the main theme of Bastiat's work, the recognition of what is not seen as well as what is visibly seen in the economy.
		Among Bastiat's propositions was a harmony of interests among the various economic interests in a free-market economy, contrary to the labor-capital class-warfare concepts of the socialists.
	www.progress.org /fold203.htm (675 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Bastiat's 'the Law (Occasional Paper, 123) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederic Bastiat, who was born two hundred years ago, was a leader of the French laissez-faire tradition in the first half of the nineteenth century.
		Bastiat shows how tempting it is for man to use the law to plunder (how "legal plunder" is the taking of property, which -if done without the benefit of the law- would have been a dealt with as a crime).
		Frederic Bastiat shows how they divide mankind into two classes, with themselves as the nobler of the two, and the rest of man as evil masses that are to be shaped and guided by their own uses of "the Law" and made to be good.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0255365098?v=glance (2327 words)

	Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bastiat was a farmer by trade who became a politician.
		Bastiat entered the public arena as a result of his support for Richard Cobden and the efforts of his English Anti-Corn Law League.
		According to Bastiat, when society's social arrangements are not properly ordered, when they are controlled by an omnipotent few, the natural and spontaneous order that needs to function freely in order for social harmony to be achieved is impeded and will result in social chaos.
	www.acton.org /publicat/randl/liberal.php?id=23 (424 words)

	Frederic Bastiat
		Bastiat believed that economics is a science based upon consumers as individuals with basic liberties, including the freedom of choice.
		As a part of Bastiat's libertarian social philosophy, he believed that women should be able to participate in the political arena.
		Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) merits a hallowed place in the annals of political economy.
	www.erraticimpact.com /philosophy/names/names_details.cfm?ID=73 (502 words)

	THE LAW by Frédéric Bastiat - 1850
		I have here again presented Bastiat's THE LAW to the Sovereign Citizens of the Web because the same situation exists in the United States and the World today at the turn of the 21st Century as existed in the France of 1848.
		Bastiat knew that he was dying of tuberculosis.
		Bastiat is spoliation, meaning to rob, plunder or despoil, to deprive of something by force of law.
	www.barefootsworld.net /the_law.html (16342 words)

	Great Thinkers: Frederic Bastiat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Frenchman Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) wrote witty satires ridiculing the protectionist doctrine that there would be more prosperity if laws prevented consumers from buying better and cheaper imported products.
		Bastiat was also among the earliest writers to expose the errors of socialism.
		In his little book The Law (1850), Bastiat eloquently affirmed the natural rights philosophy which has proven to be the sturdiest intellectual defense of liberty.
	www.libertystory.net /LSTHINKBASTIAT.htm (373 words)

	Frederic Bastiat
		His ideas and writings had been mostly forgotten but thanks to the effort of Foundation for Economic Education and other organizations, there is a revival and renewed interest in his works.
		This is an incomplete bibliography of work that will interest Bastiat scholars, the essential text is the Oeuvres Complete which contains practically all of Bastiat's writing currently available.
		On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~19thcentury/html/bastiat.htm (571 words)

	AllRefer.com - FrEdEric Bastiat (Economics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - FrEdEric Bastiat (Economics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		FrEdEric Bastiat[frAdArEk´ bAstyA´] Pronunciation Key, 1801–50, French economist.
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	Frederic Bastiat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		THE LAW may indeed oblige men to remain just; in vain will it endeavor to oblige them to be devoted to others.
		Congress for the bicentenary of Bastiat's birth (July 2001)
		You may also find interesting information concerning Bastiat on our partner site bastiat.org.
	www.bastiat.net /en (95 words)

	Bastiat, Frederic -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in full Claude-Frédéric Bastiat French economist, best known for his journalistic writing in favour of free trade and the economics of Adam Smith.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9013691?tocId=9013691 (598 words)

	Frederic Bastiat Libertarian American Patriot Website
		In the year 1850, not long before his untimely death from tuberculosis, Bastiat wrote and published perhaps the most eloquent essay on the proper role of government ever written.
		It is entitled "The Law" and is filled with Bastiat's usual clarity of expression and profound insights.
		Quotations from Frederic Bastiat on a Variety of Topics
	fredericbastiat.com (541 words)

	Frederic Bastiat
		Journalist, economist and wit, Frederic Bastiat was a French free-trade activist, author of the famous "Petition of the Candlemakers" and numerous other satirical pieces that have since become classics of economic commentary.
		Bastiat Resources on the Net by Subir Grewal - excellent resource for English-speakers.
		Frédéric Bastiat: An Annotated Bibliography by Sheldon Richman (at EconLib, Liberty Fund)
	cepa.newschool.edu /~het/profiles/bastiat.htm (220 words)

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