Mises Daily
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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[Included in The Bastiat Collection (2011), this article appeared in Economic Sophisms (1845).] As advocates of free trade, we are accused of being theorists, and of not taking practice sufficiently into account. “What fearful prejudices were entertained against Mr. Say,” says Mr. Ferrier, by that long train of distinguished administrators, and