Posted by Steven Horwitz, Guest Blogger at 4:10 PM on 02/02/10 on the NBR Blog HT to Steve Horwitz at the Coordination Problem Blog Over the weekend, the White House released a report indicating that the stimulus program had directly funded about 600,000 jobs and indirectly “created or saved” a total of 1.5 to 2 [...]
Tag Archives: Frederic Bastiat
You Can’t Count What You Can’t See
Posted in Economics 101 Also tagged Coordination Problem, Milton Friedman, Steve Horwitz, White House Leave a comment
Our Battle Cry, “We Shall Not Be Experimented Upon!”
I am a big fan of Frederic Bastiat and in particular his book The Law. In fact, I put up five posts based on this classical work. Another recent favorite writer of mine is Sheldon Richmond the editor of The Freeman and “In brief,” at the Foundation for Economic Education. In his recent post, Richmond [...]
Posted in Frederic Bastiat Also tagged Clinton, Emanuel, Foundation for Economic Education, Geithner, Obama Administration, Sheldon Richmond, Sibelius, Socialism, Summers, The Law 3 Comments
Frederic Bastiat, Must Read Posts From “The Law”
Inaugural Post – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Frederic Bastiat, Statesman, Essayist and Economist, was a renowned champion of individual freedom. In 1850 he published his most famous and enduring work, “The Law.” Bastiat, like others, recognized that the greatest single threat to liberty is government. Like the signers of our Declaration of [...]
Posted in Frederic Bastiat Also tagged Declaration of Independence, Legal Plunder, liberty and property, life, The Law 1 Comment
“You May Get Medical Care or You May Not…It May Not Be Your Choice”
The dangers of socialized medicine are real and your choices will be limited. To see just how dangerous health care reform is, that was hidden in the stimulus bill, see, “Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan,” a commentary by Betsy McCaughey posted February 9th on Bloomberg.com. The details are, to say the least, [...]
This Question of Legal Plunder Must be Settled Once and For All
This is my final post from the writings of Frederic Bastiat’s, “The Law.” Hopefully, through the discussion of the fundamental,, God given freedoms, which Bastiat has provided for us in “The Law,” you are able to more clearly identify the means by which the legal system is perverted resulting in the usurpation of the freedoms [...]
Posted in Constitutional Government, Freedom Philosophy, Higher Law, Laws of Nature Also tagged God Given Freedoms, Legal Plunder, liberty, life, Pursuit of Happiness, The Law, unalienable rights 1 Comment
The Results of Legal Plunder – Frederic Bastiat
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. [Emphasis added] What are the consequences of such a perversion? It would require volumes to describe them all. Thus we must content ourselves with pointing out the most striking. [...]
Posted in Freedom Philosophy, Laws of Nature Also tagged Evil, Law of Nature, Maintain Justice 2 Comments
Will We Become Victims Of Lawful Plunder?
As I continue to revisit Frederic Bastiat and his outstanding work, “The Law” one cannot help but benefit by his insights on the nature of man and the problems presented by our acting in unjust manners as it comes to the public square. Although, his insights were penned in 1850, Bastiat’s warnings are relevant for [...]
Inaugural Post – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the [...]
