An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

14. After Mill: Bastiat and the French laissez-faire tradition

14   After Mill: Bastiat and the French laissez-faire tradition

14.1  The French laissez-faire school

14.2  Frédéric Bastiat: the central figure

14.3  The influence of Bastiat in Europe

14.4  Gustave de Molinari, first anarcho-capitalist

14.5  Vilfredo Pareto, pessimistic follower of Molinari

14.6  Academic convert in Germany: Karl Heinrich Rau

14.7  The Scottish maverick; Henry Dunning Macleod

14.8  Plutology: Hearn and Donisthorpe

14.9  Bastiat and laissez-faire in America

14.10  Decline of laissez-faire thought

14.11  Notes