Frédéric Bastiat

Finance & economics | Economics focus FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT A 200-YEAR-OLD’S LIBERTARIAN INSIGHTS REMAIN BOTH RELEVANT AND AMUSING IT IS not called the dismal science for nothing. Even the

funniest jokes about economists usually elicit a titter, at best. If you laid all the economists in the world end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion. There's no such

thing as a one-handed economist: it's always on the one hand this, on the other hand that. And so, excruciatingly, on. This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of

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