classical liberal
Frédéric Bastiat
Claude-Frédéric Bastiat
1801–1850
Also known as: Frederic Bastiat
How Frédéric Bastiat is discussed in this archive
Referenced in 2 other works — including Liberalism in South Asia , and Government and Society in a Free and Prosperous Commonwealth .
In Liberalism in South Asia : Bastiat is one of the four nineteenth-century liberal theorists named in Doering's closing reference, situating him in the canon of post-Enlightenment liberal thought.
In Government and Society in a Free and Prosperous Commonwealth : Bastiat is directly invoked by name for his thought experiment on wealth — inventorying possessions before and after abolishing customs — which Chakraverti uses to make the free-trade case for treating the entire subcontinent as a duty-free zone.
Mentioned in (2)
Primary works (1)
- Liberalism in South Asia · 1995
- "The essay breaks off on page 20 with a reference to 19th-century liberal theorists including John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, Frédéric Bastiat, and Herbert Spencer." — Bastiat is included in Doering's nineteenth-century liberal canon
Excerpts (1)
- Government and Society in a Free and Prosperous Commonwealth
- "Frederic Bastiat, a great free trader who Richard Cobden and the Masnchesterites inspired, gave us the best way to answer this question through a thought experiment" — Bastiat's inventory thought-experiment is Chakraverti's central proof that abolishing customs barriers increases the common wealth of all Indians