{"id":216,"date":"2015-06-22T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/?p=216"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:51:42","slug":"who-put-the-bastiat-in-the-bastiat-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/who-put-the-bastiat-in-the-bastiat-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Who put the &#8216;Bastiat&#8217; in the Bastiat Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 12 May, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who put the &#8216;Bastiat&#8217; in the Bastiat Society?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bastiat-fromDEP300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bastiat-fromDEP300.jpg\" alt=\"Bastiat-fromDEP300\" width=\"300\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A talk given to the Bastiat Society of Nashville, TN. Text of Lecture <a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Lectures\/Bastiat\/BastiatSociety_12May2015.html\">HTML<\/a> &#8211; Overhead Images <a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/Lectures\/Bastiat\/BastiatSociety_12May2015-images.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overview:<\/p>\n<p>The extraordinary story of a middle-aged man (44) who comes to Paris from the obscurity of Gascony (SW France) and dazzles the Paris-based group of political economists (the \u201cGuillaumin network\u201d) with his deep knowledge of economics, his ability as a writer, his wit and humour.<\/p>\n<p>In the brief space of 6 years he writes a huge amount (3,000 pages \/ 6 volumes in the LF edition of his works) of brilliant economic journalism and innovative economic and social theory, and gets deeply involved in several important political \u201ccauses\u201d of his day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>his economic journalism exposing the folly of tariffs (protectionism), government subsidies to industry, and government regulation in general (the Economic Sophisms (1845\u201347)<\/li>\n<li>his participation in the free trade movement (1845\u201347) as head of the French Free Trade Association, editor of their journal <em>Libre-\u00c9change<\/em>, and speaker at their meetings<\/li>\n<li>his activity as an elected politician during the 1848 Revolution and Second Republic (as VP of the Finance Committee)<\/li>\n<li>his opposition to the rise of socialism (1848\u20131850) with a series of anti-socialist pamphlets<\/li>\n<li>his activity in the anti-war movement (International Friends of Peace Congress in Paris in Aug. 1849 at which FB gave a major speech; Victor Hugo was President)<\/li>\n<li>his teaching and writing a treatise on economic theory (1847\u201350) the <em>Economic Harmonies<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He dies before he can complete his tasks, from a severe throat condition (possibly throat cancer) which kills him slowly and painfully at the age of 49.<\/p>\n<p>Bastiat\u2019s ability to combine roles as \u201cthinker\/writer\u201d and pro-liberty \u201cactivist\u201d makes him unique in the classical liberal\/libertarian tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 12 May, 2015 &#8220;Who put the &#8216;Bastiat&#8217; in the Bastiat Society?&#8221;. 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