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Фредерик Бастия

Order without a state

In the mid-19th century, the French economist Frédéric Bastiat gave perhaps the most brilliant definition of what a state is. It is “the fiction by which everyone wants to live at the expense of everyone else.” At the same time, another French-speaking economist, Gustave de Molinari, wrote an article in which he questioned the state’s …

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