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Frédéric Bastiat

Claude-Frédéric Bastiat

1801–1850

Also known as: Frederic Bastiat

How Frédéric Bastiat is discussed in this archive

Authored 2 works in the archive.

Referenced in 2 other works , including Liberalism in South Asia , and Government and Society in a Free and Prosperous Commonwealth .

In Liberalism in South Asia : Bastiat is one of the four nineteenth-century liberal theorists named in Doering's closing reference, situating him in the canon of post-Enlightenment liberal thought.

In Government and Society in a Free and Prosperous Commonwealth : Bastiat is directly invoked by name for his thought experiment on wealth — inventorying possessions before and after abolishing customs — which Chakraverti uses to make the free-trade case for treating the entire subcontinent as a duty-free zone.

By Frédéric Bastiat (2)

Primary works (2)

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Primary works (1)

  • Liberalism in South Asia · 1995
    • "The essay breaks off on page 20 with a reference to 19th-century liberal theorists including John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, Frédéric Bastiat, and Herbert Spencer." · Bastiat is included in Doering's nineteenth-century liberal canon

Excerpts (1)

  • Government and Society in a Free and Prosperous Commonwealth
    • "Frederic Bastiat, a great free trader who Richard Cobden and the Masnchesterites inspired, gave us the best way to answer this question through a thought experiment" · Bastiat's inventory thought-experiment is Chakraverti's central proof that abolishing customs barriers increases the common wealth of all Indians