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    1808 when Frédéric was seven years old. His father moved inland to the town of Mugron, with Frédéric following soon afterward. The Bastiat estate in Mugron...
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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...
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    The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay "That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen"...
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    existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." (Frédéric Bastiat, The Law, 1850) Conservatism subscribes to the concept that freedom...
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  • inspired by the 19th-century French philosopher Frédéric Bastiat and his defense of liberty. Bastiat's use of satire and allegory enabled him to relate...
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    School theorist associated with French laissez-faire economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille. Born in Liège, Wallonia, Molinari's critique...
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  • boots on," has taken various forms since as early as 1710. In 1845, Frédéric Bastiat expressed an early notion of this law: We must confess that our adversaries...
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  • November 2004 to 26 August 2005 Frédéric Bastiat, political economist and member of the French assembly In literature: Frédéric Beigbeder, French writer, commentator...
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    rights would be amply compensated by participation in social power." Frédéric Bastiat severely criticized Rousseau in several of his works, most notably...
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  • numerous fundamental reforms in Dutch politics. Frédéric Bastiat (France, 1801–1850) Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political...
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