Frederic Bastiat

Bastiat for Today

Bastiat for Today

H/T to John Mauldin and his fine newsletter for this quote from Bill Bonner. Both are among my favorite reads. Bonner writes for The Daily Reckoning: Where is the peace [...]

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Keynes or Bastiat

Keynes or Bastiat

The Broken Window Fallacy, debunked by Frederic Bastiat over 150 years ago, still reigns supreme in Keynesian economics. Some might call it the keystone of this brand of political-economic chicanery. [...]

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Bastiat Knew Better

Bastiat Knew Better

The Keynesian mindset has poisoned the thinking of a few generations of economists. Nowhere is this convoluted thinking more apparent than the common violation of “The Broken Window Fallacy.” Frederic [...]

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Bastiat's Broken Window Fallacy

Bastiat’s Broken Window Fallacy

Frederic Bastiat was probably the most influential economic essayist ever. He died in 1850. His “broken window fallacy” is probably the single most important principle in economics. It anticipated Keynesian [...]

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