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The Law
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Author: Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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Category: Legal System
How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail? These are among the most intriguing issues in political and economic philosophy. More specifically, the problem of law that itself violates law is
The Bastiat Collection
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Author: Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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Claude Frédéric Bastiat was an economist and publicist of breathtaking intellectual energy and massive historical influence. He was born in Bayonne, France on June 29th , 1801. After the middle-class Revolution of 1830, Bastiat became politically active and was elected Justice of the Peace in 1831 and to the Council General (county-level assembly)
War as Spoliation
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Author: Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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Category: History of the Austrian School of Economics, Political Theory, Biographies
A man (and the same thing may be said of a people) may pro­cure the means of existence in two ways,—by creating them, or by stealing them. Each of these two great sources of acquisition presents a variety of methods. We may create the means of existence by the chase, by fishing, by agriculture, etc. We may steal them by breach of trust, by