Mises Daily
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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[Included in The Bastiat Collection (2011), this article appeared in Economic Sophisms (1845).] A fallacy sometimes expands, and runs through the whole texture of a long and elaborate theory. More frequently, it shrinks and contracts, assumes the guise of a principle, and lurks in a word or a phrase. “May God protect us from the devil and from