Frederic Bastiat argues that governments often fix problems by expanding the very thing that caused them, like legal plunder. He also warns that people tend to think anything legal is automatically right, even when the law protects theft or monopoly.
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Claude‑Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist and writer who was an important member of the French liberal school.
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