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FREDERIC BASTIAT A Man Alone ARCHITECTS OF FREEDOM SERIES FREDERIC BASTIAT A Man Alone GEORGE CHARLES ROCHE III ARLINGTON HOUSE New Rochelle, N.Y. Copyright © 1971 by Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in connection with a review. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 71-139891 ISBN 0-87000-116-7 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO JUNE, who knows so much more French than her husband. Contents Foreword Introduction 1. A Time of Preparation Bayonne Mugron 2. Revolution: 1830 A Peaceful Revolutionary The Citizen King Aftermath 3. Freedom of Exchange Bastiat and the Tariff Cobden and the League The Debate Begins Paris Le Libre-Exchange The French Free Trade Association The Political Ramifications of Free Trade 4. Revolution: February 1848 The Corruption of French Society Bastiat on the Eve of Revolution Prelude to Revolution The Streets of Paris The Chamber of Deputies Middle-Class Apathy Violence in the Streets Aftermath 5. The Triumph of French Democracy Bastiat Comes to the Assembly The Struggle Begins National Workshops The Approaching Clash 6. Revolution: June 1848 Bastiat Stands Against the Tide The Workers and the Demagogues The Communist Threat The Proper Role of Government Disarmament Unpopular Causes The Sick Republic 7. Last Days Bastiat’s Analysis of France in 1850 The Race with Death 8. Bastiat and the Social Architects Bastiat’s Style in Controversy The Desire for Power Rousseau The French Revolutionaries Saint-Simon and Fourier “A Marxist before Karl Marx” Louis Blanc Proudhon The Future of France The Moral Corruptions of the Interventionist State The Natural Development of Society 9. Conservatives and Libertarians The Whig Tradition Edmund Burke Frenchmen and Englishmen Coleridge Bentham Mill Cobden Cobbett England Loses Her Way The American Whig France Tocqueville What’s In a Name? Bastiat and His Place in the Scheme of Things Democracy The Nature of Man The Nature of Government The Nature of Society Inequality and Injustice Progress and Harmony Self-interest Property Liberty Conservatives and Libertarians 10. Frederic Bastiat Today The Seen and the Unseen We Are All Consumers Production of True Wealth The Necessity of Capital Political Solutions Economic Decisions at the Ballot Box Social Decisions at the Ballot Box Education as Propaganda The Limitations of Political Solutions Individual Choice and Individual Responsibility Bastiat’s Advice for Tomorrow Aphorisms Politics Economics The Social Architects What of the Future? Index
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