He did most of his writing during the years just before and just following the Revolution of February 1848 in France.

Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain and since labor is pain in itself it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier. It is easier to take wealth from others instead of working to gain wealth. Bastiat then applies the argument to a host of other examples and explains how things like subsidies for the arts, trade restrictions, and prodigality don’t actually make societies richer while things like disbanding the army, middlemen, machines, and thrift don’t make societies poorer. Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman and author. Bastiat believed that many in power use the law to commit legalized plunder because of pure greed.

He has made it poorer to the tune of one window. Claude Frédéric Bastiat o etyce i moralnoci (1) Claude Frédéric Bastiat cytaty katastroficzne, pesymistyczne (1) Claude Frédéric Bastiat o prawie (2) Claude Frédéric Bastiat o przyrodzie, naturze, biologii (1) Claude Frédéric Bastiat o przyszoci (1) Claude Frédéric Bastiat cytaty retoryczne (1) Claude Frédéric Bastiat o. The window-smasher hasn’t made the world any richer. The lesson is simple-and again, it’s at the root of Hazlitt’s Economics on One Lesson-the kid who breaks Jacques Bonhomme’s window isn’t stimulating the economy because Jacques could have used the money he spent replacing the window on literally anything else. If you’ve ever heard anyone say that war is good for the economy or that a natural disaster is to be welcomed because it will stimulate gross domestic product, this essay explains why that’s wrong. If You’ve ever heard anyone invoke something called “the broken window fallacy,” this is where it started.

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