Posts tagged “bastiat”

That Which Is Not Learned

Frédéric Bastiat's most famous essay isn't about schooling at all. A boy breaks a shopkeeper's window, and the crowd that gathers finds a silver lining: the […]

That Which Is Seen — And That Which Is Not Seen

Frederick Bastiat In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause — it is seen. The others unfold in succession — they are not seen: […]