Mises Weekends: Louis Rouanet on the French Liberty Tradition

Louis Rouanet, a Summer Fellow at the Mises Institute and a formidable young Austro-libertarian scholar, discusses the deep French libertarian tradition, which goes far beyond Bastiat and Jean-Baptiste Say. In fact, French economics was once a close cousin of the Austrian school. And while we tend to see France as hopelessly statist and egalitarian today, its intellectual traditions are radically liberal.