The Bastiat Solution, by Sheldon Richman, 29 Aug 2008
Related Topic: Politics
Analyzes segments of Bastiat's The Law as an antidote for the demagoguery of the election season
"The election season will subject us to a nonstop barrage of platitudes ... Luckily, we have Bastiat to turn to for solace. But even more important, we have Bastiat's implicit strategic advice. Our family, friends, and neighbors would never think to threaten force to get their way because they know it is wrong. We just need to show them that the rules are the same for politicians."

The Bright Side of War, by Sheldon Richman, 24 May 2004
Related Topics: War, Broken Window Fallacy
"... the idea that war creates prosperity is emphatically not true. ... The real cost of the war is the wealth we are compelled to forgo. ... Even truly defensive wars entail destruction, not production."

Would-Be Rulers without Clothes, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, May 2008
Related Topics: Politics, Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke
Examines Hillary Clinton's assertion about "wanting" a universal health care plan
"The rights of the whole can't be greater than the sum of the rights of its parts. Frédéric Bastiat wrote in The Law, '...since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force -- for the same reason -- cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.'"

Writings

Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas, Jul 1850
(What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen), in French

Freedom in Transactions, 1848
Related Topics: The Free Market, Government
Contrasts how freedom of exchange causes vast numbers of provisions to arrive in Paris on a daily basis with what would happen if government were to direct these transactions
"... eighty departments have been labouring today, without concert, without any mutual understanding, for the provisioning of Paris. How does each succeeding day bring what is wanted, nothing more, nothing less, to so gigantic a market? What, then, is the ingenious and secret power which governs the astonishing regularity of movements so complicated ... That power is an absolute principle, the principle of freedom in transactions."

La Vitre cassée, Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas
Related Topic: Broken Window Fallacy

That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen, Jul 1850

The Broken Window, That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen
Related Topic: Broken Window Fallacy

Books Authored

Economic Fallacies, 1848
Related Topic: Economic Fallacies

ISBN 1931541027: Paperback, Simon Publications, 2001

Economic Sophisms, 1848
Related Topic: Economic Fallacies

ISBN 0910614148: Paperback, Foundation for Econ Education, 1996

Selected Essays in Political Economy, 1850
Related Topic: Economics
Includes "The Law" and "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen"

ISBN 0910614156: Paperback, Foundation for Econ Education, 1968

The Law, by Claude Frederic Bastiat, Sheldon Richman (Foreword), Walter E. Williams (Introduction), Foundation for Economic Education, 1850
Related Topic: Law
Translated by Dean Russell. Second Edition, Copyright 1998, The Foundation for Economic Education. Electronic text available at The Library of Economics and Liberty.

ISBN 0786101903: Audio cassette, Blackstone Audiobooks, Unabridged, 1997
ISBN 9562910113: Audio CD, bnpublishing.com, 2005
ISBN 1572460741: Hardcover, Foundation for Econ Education, 2nd edition, 1998
ISBN 1419168878: Paperback, Kessinger Publishing, 2004
ISBN 1572460733: Paperback, Foundation for Econ Education , 2nd edition, 1998
ISBN 1599869756: Paperback, Filiquarian Publishing, 2006