A Birthday Appreciation of Bastiat
The French economist, statesman, and economic journalist Frederic Bastiat would have turned 218 years old today; unfortunately, he died of tuberculosis in 1850 at the age of 49. Unfortunately, he died young of a disease that afflicts far fewer people now—but he left an enduring intellectual legacy reflected in organizations and fellowships that bear his name and perhaps most notably in the “one lesson” at the root of Henry Hazlitt’s classic Economics in One Lesson.
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