Mises Daily
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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[Included in The Bastiat Collection (2011), this article appeared in Economic Sophisms (1845).] We have just seen that between our wants and the satisfaction of these wants, obstacles are interposed. We succeed in overcoming these obstacles, or in diminishing their force, by the employment of our faculties. We may say, in a general way, that