{"id":48899,"date":"2026-02-21T03:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=person&#038;p=48899"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:31:09","slug":"bastiat","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/person\/bastiat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat (1801-1850)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brief Bio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat (1801-1850) was one of the leading advocates for free trade in France in the 1840s. He was also a populariser of free market ideas in works like <em>Economic Sophisms<\/em> (1846, 1848). He developed a theory of plunder and class analysis and wrote an unfinished treatise on economics <em>Economic Harmonies <\/em>(1850-51).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Works Online <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","author_nationality":[38],"author_school":[124,100],"author_period":[50],"class_list":["post-48899","person","type-person","status-publish","hentry","author_nationality-french","author_school-french-cl","author_school-paris-school","author_period-19th-century"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/48899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author_nationality","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_nationality?post=48899"},{"taxonomy":"author_school","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_school?post=48899"},{"taxonomy":"author_period","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_period?post=48899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}