Tag Archives: The Law

Our Hero, the State

Posted on December 29, 2009 by justino

Without it, the superhuman state, individuals would have probably never conceived of the means to create and to manage transportation systems, to help the poor, to clean the environment, and to defend against coercion, without a supra-agent present to oversee … Continue reading →

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The Law by Frederic Bastiat (Part 3 in a series)

Posted on July 20, 2009 by justino

This is the third installment of a live-blogging series on Frederic Bastiat’s The Law. Past posts in the series may be found here and here. The Idea of a Passive Mankind This fallacious idea of the state as the primary … Continue reading →

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The Law by Frederic Bastiat (Part 2 in a series)

Posted on March 17, 2009 by justino

This is the second part of a live-blogging series on Frederic Bastiat’s The Law. Part 1 was published here. The Fate of the Non-Conformists The non-conformist Bastiat spoke of is the person who would question the morality of these forms … Continue reading →

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The Law by Frederic Bastiat (Part 1 in a series)

Posted on March 5, 2009 by justino

One trouble with reading a book of any length is often that when I reach the last half of the book, I have forgotten what the first half said. I wanted to try this live-blogging method, which is most commonly … Continue reading →

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