Mises Daily
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[ Journal of Libertarian Studies , Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter 2007)] “ The Broken Window ,” an essay written by Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), was the first of a dozen short essays compiled under the heading, What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen . In these essays, Bastiat cautions us by saying that to accurately evaluate the full outcome of an event, we