Frédéric Bastiat
Former Deputy of the French National Assembly
Claude-Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, writer and a prominent member of the French Liberal School.
A member of the French National Assembly, Bastiat developed the economic concept of opportunity cost and introduced the parable of the... Wikipedia
Born: June 30, 1801, Bayonne, France
Died: December 24, 1850 (age 49 years), Rome, Italy
Influenced: Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Henry Hazlitt, and more
Influenced by: Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, Anne Robert Jacques, and more
Education: Hôtel Abbaye Ecole de Sorèze
Organization founded: Société d'économie politique
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