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MY PAPERS ON BASTIAT
[Created: 14 February, 2026]
[Updated:
14 February, 2026]
This is a list of the papers and other things I have written on Bastiat over the years.
For a full list of all my papers see this page.
Note: Clicking on the headings "DATE", "AUTHOR", "TITLE", and "LOCATION" on the table below will sort the table accordingly. A second click will reverse the order.
The Papers
| DATE | KIND | TITLE | SUBJECT AREA | ONLINE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Trans. | Frédéric Bastiat's 100 page "Introduction" to his book Cobden and the League, or the English Movement for the Liberty of Commerce (1845). See also the French original in enhanced [ HTML ]. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2025 | Trans. | Frédéric Bastiat, What is Seen and What is Not Seen, or Political Economy in One Lesson. The Students Edition. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025). See also the French original [ HTML ]. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2025 | Trans. | A Comparative Edition of Frédéric Bastiat's essay on "The State" (1848-49). Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025). It contains an introduction and editions of the three versions of his essay in both French and English. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2025 | Trans. | Frédéric Bastiat, The Law: The Students Edition. Translated, edited, and with Notes by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025). See also the French original [ HTML ] | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2023 | Paper | "Bastiat's Rhetoric of Liberty: The Use of Language and Literature in his Economic Writings" (July 2023). This paper is an expansion and reworking of three papers I have written on Bastiat "rhetoric of liberty" and is use of literature in his major writings on economics, namely the Economic Sophisms and Economic Harmonies . | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2020 | Video | "Who was Bastiat? Interview with David Hart (video)" (Jan. 23, 2020) - an interview recorded at the American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, Mass. [
Online elsewhere
]
|
Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2019 | Paper | "Reassessing Bastiat's Economic Harmonies after 160 Years" - Liberty Matters No. 40 (May 2019): David M. Hart, "Reassessing Bastiat's Economic Harmonies after 160 Years" (May 2019). Participants: Donald J. Boudreaux, Guido Hülsmann, and Joseph T. Salerno. [ Online elsewhere ] | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2017 | Paper | "Bastiat goes to the Movies, or "Filming Freddie": How to Popularise Economic Ideas in Film". A paper given at the Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Conference, April 2017 Maui, Hawaii. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2017 | Paper | "A Reader’s Guide to Bastiat’s The Law (June 1850)" (25 Oct., 2017) | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2024 | Paper | "Grappling with Economic Complexity: The Idea of "Ceteris Paribus" or "Toutes Choses d'ailleurs Égales" in the Thought of J.S. Mill and Frédéric Bastiat" to be present at the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference 26-27 September, 2024, at Alphacrucis University College, Parramatta, Sydney NSW. There is also an extensive Appendix with examples of the use of the term by the economists under discussion. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2023 | Anthology | An Anthology of Writings by Bastiat on Plunder, Class, and the State. An anthology of 13 items on the topic of plunder and class analysis with a lengthy introduction by me: Frédéric Bastiat, La Spoliation, la Classe, et l’État (Plunder, Class, and State): An Anthology of Texts (1845-1851). Edited and with an Introduction by David M. Hart (Sydney: The Pittwater Free Press, 2023). | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2022 | Paper | "Vocabulary Clusters in the Thought of Frédéric Bastiat" (2022, 2024). A collection of "concept maps" or "vocabulary clusters" of some of Bastiat's key ideas such as Class, Disturbing Factors, Harmony and Disharmony, Human Action, Plunder, and the Seen and the Unseen. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2022 | Paper | "Bastiat on the Seen and The Unseen: An Intellectual History" (2022). | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2021 | Paper | "Frédéric Bastiat on Plunder, Class, and the State" (2021). This essay was written to accompany an anthology of Bastiat's writings on plunder, class, and the state. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2020 | Paper | "Reassessing Bastiat’s Economic Harmonies " after 170 Years" (Jan. 2020). A paper given to the Political Economy Project, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2019 | Paper | "Some Thoughts on an ‘Austrian Theory of Film’: Ideas and Human Action in a Film about Frédéric Bastiat". A paper given at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, The Kings College, NYC (Sept. 2019). | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2019 | Paper | "Bastiat's Theory of Harmony and Disharmony: An Intellectual History". A paper given to the American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, Mass. (Jan. 2020). | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2019 | Paper | "Frédéric Bastiat's Economic Harmonies : A Reassessment after 170 Years". A Paper given to the Political Economy Project, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (Jan. 2020). | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2018 | Paper | "The ‘Seen’ and the ‘Unseen’ Bastiat: Some Reflections on Editing his Work and his Continuing Relevance for Today," Ostrom Workshop, Tocqueville Lecture Series, 28 Sept. 2018, Indiana University, IN. | Bastiat | ||
| 2017 | Lecture | "Bastiat: the ‘Unseen’ Radical". The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, Austrian Economics Research Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn AL (March 2017). Slides for lecture [ PDF ] and Lecture summary [ HTML ] | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2016 | Screenplay | "Broken Windows: A Screenplay"- a screnplay for a film about the life and times of the economist Frédéric Bastiat | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2016 | Paper | "Broken Windows: An Illustrated Essay to accompany the Screenplay" | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2015 | Paper | "Reassessing Frédéric Bastiat as an Economic Theorist." A paper presented to the Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, October 2, 2015. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2015 | Paper | "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. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2015 | Paper | "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". | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2015 | Paper | "Reader’s Guide to the Works of Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)" - 1st edition 2015; revised version 2017. [ Online elsewhere ] | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2014 | Paper | "Negative Railways, Turtle Soup, talking Pencils, and House owning Dogs: ‘The French Connection’ and the Popularization of Economics from Say to Jasay" (2014, 2024). This paper was originally written for a Symposium on Tony de Jasay following his death in 2014. A shorter version was published in The Independent Review (Summer 2015) listed above. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2014 | Paper | "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 & Economic Processes" at NYU (December 1, 2014). | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2013 | Paper | "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, November 23–25, 2013, Tampa, Florida. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2013 | Paper | "Bastiat’s Lessons for the 21st Century: The Broken Window Fallacy Revisited (again and again)." Paper given to the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) annual conference April 14-16, 2013. Full paper and lecture overheads [PDF 1.8 MB ]. | Bastiat | ||
| 2013 | Paper | "Frédéric Bastiat sur la spoliation légale". Trans. by Jérôme Durou Institute Coppet (février 12, 2013) [ Online elsewhere ] | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2013 | Paper | "À propos de Bastiat : ce qu’on n’a pas lu". Trans. by Jacques de Guenin. ALEPS and Institut Coppet (février 20, 2013) [ Online elsewhere ] | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2012 | Paper | "Frédéric Bastiat’s Distinction between Legal and Illegal Plunder." A Paper given at American Philosophical Society, Seattle WA, 7 April, 2012. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2012 | Paper | "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. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2011 | Paper | "Bastiat's Rhetoric of Liberty: The Use of Language and Literature in his Economic Writings" (2011, 2015, 2024) | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2011 | Book |
The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat
in six volumes. Jacques de Guenin, General Editor. Academic Editor, David M. Hart (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2011-2019). [
Online elsewhere
].
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Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2011 | Paper | "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 History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, July 2011. | Bastiat | HTML | |
| 2011 | Paper | "Seven Provocative Things about Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)". The David R. Saurman Provocative Lecture given at the Department of Economics, San Jose State University, CA. | Bastiat |