Pardonnez-moi, Monsieur Bastiat

The Free Agent has been mulling over the elegant parable offered by M. Frederic Bastiat in “That Which is Seen and That which is Not Seen” in opposition to pointless destruction (and brilliantly, to trade barriers, “nothing else than a partial destruction”).  The story is this: A shopkeeper’s son carelessly breaks a pane of glass, […]

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