For we are therefore stating that both Frederic Bastiat and Joan Robinson did not understand Econ 101.

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One of my heroes is Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), a French advocate of free trade and free enterprise.

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Frederic Bastiat, the best economist most people never heard of, was born on June 30, 1801, in Bayonne France.

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The last Frenchman known to understand the economics of anything was Frederic Bastiat and he died in 1850.

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Taking his cue from the 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat, Hazlitt tells the story of a vandal who breaks a bakery window.

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