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Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
Joseph Garnier (1813-1881)
Michel Chevalier (1806-1879)
Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53)
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Some recent blog posts:
- “An Introduction to the Paris School of
Political Economy” (7 Aug. 2022)
- “The Guillaumin Network and the Paris
School of Political Economy” (7 Aug. 2022)
- “A Publishing History of the Guillaumin
Firm (1837-1910)” (5 Aug. 2022)
- “Some Thoughts on Editing, Translating,
and Displaying online the Work of the French “Économistes”” (4 Aug. 2022)
- “Frédéric Bastiat’s Philosophy of
Markets” (17 July, 2022)
- “J.B. Say and the Transformation of
Restoration French Liberalism” (20 November, 2021)
- “The Scandalous Neglect of Classical
Liberal Sociology” (30 May, 2021)
- “Bastiat’s Anti-socialist Pamphlets, or
“Mister Bastiat’s Little Pamphlets”” (13 May, 2021)
- “The Socialist Critique of Private
Property and Free Markets and the French Political Economists’ Response” (12 May, 2021)
- “The Socialist Critique of Private Property
and Free Markets. Part I: The French" (8 Feb. 2021)
- “The Institut Coppet’s Collected Works of
Molinari” (9 December, 2020)
- “Molinari’s articles in the
Dictionnaire de l’économie politique (1852-53)” (14 October, 2020)
- “Gustave de Molinari and the Story of the
Monopolist Grocer” (3 June, 2020)
- “Bastiat on the Seen and the Unseen”
(29 May, 2020)
- “Some Key Terms used by Bastiat in his
Economic Theory” (22 December, 2019)
- “The Books on Harmony and Disharmony
Bastiat never wrote” (21 Dec. 2019)
- “Celebrating the Bicentennial of the birth
of Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)” (2 Dec. 2018)
The full collections of papers:
- "Vocabulary Clusters in the Thought of Frédéric Bastiat" (July 2022) [HTML]
- “Bastiat on the Seen and The Unseen: An Intellectual History”. An unpublished paper (27 June,
2022). [HTML]
- "J.B. Say and the Transformation of Restoration French Liberalism" (Nov. 2021) [HTML] and also a blog post
- “Bastiat’s Theory of Class: The Plunderers vs. the Plundered”. An unpublished paper (16 July,
2021). [HTML]
- “Bastiat’s Economic Harmonies: A Reassessment after 170 Years.” A Paper given to the Political
Economy Project, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (7 Jan. 2020). [HTML]
- “Bastiat’s Theory of Harmony and Disharmony.” A Paper given to the American Institute for Economic
Research, Great Barrington, Mass. (Jan. 2020). [HTML]
- “Was Molinari a True Anarcho-Capitalist?: An Intellectual History of the Private and Competitive
Production of Security.” A paper given at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, New York City (28
Sept. 2019). [HTML]
- “Some Thoughts on an ‘Austrian Theory Of Film’: Ideas and Human Action in a Film about Frédéric
Bastiat” (Sept. 2019). A paper given at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, New York City (28 Sept.
2019). [HTML]
- See also “’Broken Windows’. A Screenplay about the Life and Work of Frédéric Bastiat
(1801-1850)” (2016) [HTML]
- with an accompanying “Illustrated History of the Life and Work Frédéric Bastiat” [HTML]
- “The Paris School of Liberal Political Economy” in The Cambridge History of French Thought,
ed. Michael Moriarty and Jeremy Jennings (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 301-12. Also a much
longer version - “The Paris School of Liberal Political Economy, 1803–1853” (March 2018) [HTML]
- Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition, ed. David M.
Hart, Gary Chartier, Ross Miller Kenyon, and Roderick T. Long (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). I wrote
most of the Introduction, pp. ix-xxii. And organized most of the extracts. Info at Palgrave website.
- Introduction and Notes to a revised translation of Bastiat’s The Law (June 2018) [HTML]
- "A Reader’s Guide to Bastiat’s The Law (June 1850)" (Oct. 20170) [HTML]
- Introduction and Notes to the revised translation of Bastiat’s The State (Feb. 2018) [HTML]
- “Introduction to the Texts" to The Bicentennial Anthology of Gustave de Molinari's Writings on
The State (Nov. 2018, revised Nov. 2020) [HTML]
- “Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1801-64) and the Guillaumin publishing firm (1837-1910)" (Jan. 2017) -
a list of their publications and an analysis of their history [HTML]
- “Plunderers, Parasites, and Plutocrats: Some Reflections on the Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of
Classical Liberal Class Analysis”. A paper given at The Libertarian Scholars Conference, NYC (20
Oct. 2018). [HTML]
- “Bastiat goes to the Movies, or “Filming Freddie”: How to Popularise Economic Ideas in Film” (Apr.
2017) . A paper given at the APEE Annual Conference, April 2017, Maui, Hawaii. [HTML]
- "Frédéric Bastiat: The 'Unseen' Radical". The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture given at the Austrian
Economics Research Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, AL. 10 March, 2017. [HTML]
- “For Whom the Bell Tolls: The School of Liberty and the Rise of Interventionism in French
Political Economy in the Late 19thC," and a translation of Passy, “The School of Liberty” Journal
of Markets and Morality, vol. 20, Number 2 (Fall 2017), pp. 383-412. [HTML] and PDFs at the journal website [PDF1] and [PDF2]
- "The Importance of Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850): Some Notes and Thoughts" (Oct. 2017) [HTML]
- “The Life of Jacques Bonhomme, Printer (1819-1865): a Classical Liberal Story” (2016) [HTML]
- “"Bastiat’s Theory of Class: The Plunderers vs. the Plundered" An introduction to a bilingual
anthology of Bastiat’s writings on class and exploitation (May 2016, updated July 2021) [HTML]
- ”Charles Coquelin, Gustave de Molinari, Frédéric Bastiat and the “Austrian Moment” in French
Political Economy 1845-1855: Part II. Molinari and the Private Production of Security" (2016) [HTML]
- “The Struggle against Protectionism, Socialism, and the Bureaucratic State: The Economic Thought
of Gustave de Molinari, 1845-1855." Unpublished Paper given at the Austrian Economics Research
Conference, 31 March to 2 April 2016, The Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama. [HTML]
- A revised translation of Molinari’s “Eleventh Soirée” (with additional footnotes) from Gustave de
Molinari, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare; entretiens sur les lois économiques et defense de
la propriété (Paris: Guillaumin, 1849), "Onzième Soirée," pp. 303-37. In Panarchy;
Political Theories of Non-Territorial States. Edited by Aviezer Tucker, Gian Piero de Bellis.
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought (2016). [HTML]
- “Gustave de Molinari and "The Seven Musketeers" of French Political Economy in the 1840s" (June,
2015, revised Aug. 2018) [HTML]
- “A Readers Guide to the Work of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)” (2015, revised 2017). [OLL wsebsite]
- "The Liberal Roots of American Conservatism: Bastiat and the French Connection." A paper given to
the Philadelphia Society meeting March 27–29, 2015 on “The Roots of American Conservatism - and its
Future”. [HTML]
- "Reassessing Frédéric Bastiat as an Economic Theorist.” A paper presented to the Free Market
Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, October 2, 2015. [HTML]
- "Literature IN Economics, and Economics AS Literature I: Bastiat's use of Literature in Defense
of Free Markets and his Rhetoric of Economic Liberty." A paper given at the Association of Private
Enterprise Education International Conference (April 12-14, 2015), Cancún, Mexico. [HTML]
- "Literature IN Economics, and Economics AS Literature II: The Economics of Robinson Crusoe from
Defoe to Rothbard by way of Bastiat." A paper given at the Association of Private Enterprise
Education International Conference (April 12-14, 2015), Cancún, Mexico. [HTML]
- "Seeing the 'Unseen' Bastiat: the changing Optics of Bastiat Studies. Or, what the Liberty Fund's
Translation Project is teaching us about Bastiat." A paper presented to the "Colloquium on Market
Institutions and Economic Processes" at NYU, Monday, December 1, 2014. [HTML]
- “’Unfortunately, hardly anyone listens to the Economists’: The Battle against Socialism by the
French Economists in the 1840s”. Talk given to the Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney, 8 July
2014. [HTML]
- “Negative Railways, Turtle Soup, talking Pencils, and House owning Dogs”: “The French Connection”
and the Popularization of Economics from Say to Jasay.” (2014) . Published in a shorter version as
“Broken Windows and House-Owning Dogs: The French Connection and the Popularization of Economics
from Bastiat to Jasay," The Independent Review, 2015. Symposium on the work of Anthony de
Jasay, pp. 61-84. [HTML]
- Finding and editing Bastiat’s revolutionary magazines led to the publication of Jacques
Bonhomme: L’éphémère journal de Frédéric Bastiat et Gustave de Molinari (11 juin – 13 juillet
1848). Recueil de tous les articles, augmenté d’une introduction. Ed. Benoît Malbranque
(Paris: Institut Coppet, 2014). [PDF] at Coppet Institut. Here on my website [HTML] and [facs. PDF]
- “On Ricochets, Hidden Channels, and Negative Multipliers: Bastiat on Calculating the Economic
Costs of ‘The Unseen’.” A Paper given at the History of Thought Session of the Society for the
Development of Austrian Economics, Southern Economic Association 83rd Annual Meeting, 24 Nov. 2013.
[HTML]
- Contributions to Robert Leroux, “Bastiat and Political Economy” (July 1, 2013), with response
essays by Donald J. Boudreaux, Michael C. Munger, and David M. Hart. Liberty Matters online
discussion, the Online
Library of Liberty
- “Is Biography History? The Relationship between Ideas and Human Action in the Life of Frédéric
Bastiat (1801-1850): A Biographical Approach.” A Paper given at the Historical Society’s conference
on “Popularizing Historical Knowledge: Practice, Prospects, and Perils,” University of South
Carolina in Columbia, SC, May 31 - June 3, 2012. [HTML]
- "Frédéric Bastiat’s Distinction between Legal and Illegal Plunder" - A Paper given at the
Molinari Society Session “Explorations in Philosophical Anarchy” at the Pacific Meeting of the
American Philosophical Society, Seattle WA, 7 April, 2012. [HTML]
- “Cato Institute Book Forum, 14 October, 2011: The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 1"
[HTML]
- "Opposing Economic Fallacies, Legal Plunder, and the State: Frédéric Bastiat’s Rhetoric of Liberty
in the Economic Sophisms (1846-1850)". A paper given at the July 2011 annual meeting of the History
of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. [HTML]
- "Frédéric Bastiat (1801-50): His Writings in the Journal des Économistes (1844-1852)"
(Sept. 2010) [HTML]
- "The World of French Political Economy in which Frédéric Bastiat lived” (Oct. 2010) [HTML]
A few things from the vault:
- "Gustave de Molinari and the Future of Liberty: ‘Fin de Siècle, Fin de la Liberté'?" (2001,
revised Aug. 2021). A paper presented to the Australian Historical Association 2000 Conference on
"Futures in the Past", The University of Adelaide, 5-9 July, 2000. [HTML]
- My unoublished PhD thesis: Class Analysis, Slavery and the Industrialist Theory of History in
French Liberal Thought, 1814-1830: The Radical Liberalism of Charles Comte and Charles
Dunoyer (unpublished PhD, King’s College Cambridge, 1994) [accessible from here]
- my undergraduate Honours thesis: “Gustave de Molinari and the Anti-statist Liberal Tradition”
(1979) [HTML]
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