Frédéric Bastiat: Praxeologist Theoretician
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Gérard Bramoullé
Frédéric Bastiat is often regarded as a brilliant journalist with no academic skills. This degrading appraisal is discussed and the article demonstrates that Bastiat was a praxeologist ahead of this time. Opposed to the use of the realm of social science; conceiving economics as determining general laws, on the basis of absolute principles, such as the axiom of action; spinned out by a deductive approach; aware (of the fact) that the study of human action must be completed by that of individual interactions (catallactics); in a limited time Bastiat has been able to draw conclusions and anticipate situations of universal nature.Frédéric Bastiat est souvent considéré comme un brillant journaliste, sans qualités académiques. Cette appréciation dévalorisante est discutée et l’article montre que Bastiat était un théoricien praxéologiste avant l’heure. Opposé à l’application de la méthode des sciences physiques aux sciences sociales ; concevant la science économique comme déterminant des lois générales, à partir de principes absolus, tels que l’axiome de l’action, prolongés par une démarche déductive ; conscient que l’étude de l’action humaine doit être complétée par celle des interactions individuelles (la catallactique) ; Bastiat a pu, dans un temps limité, dégager des conclusions et anticiper des situations au caractère universel.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Frederic Bastiat - "A Man for All Reasons"
- Frédéric Bastiat: The Economics and Philosophy of Freedom
- The Labour Theory of Value and Social Justice. The Teachings of Social Catholic Criticisms of Bastiat's Doctrine
- Natural Right, Providence, and Order: Frédéric Bastiat's Laissez-Faire
- Natural Law and Natural Rights: Bastiat Vindicated
- In Honor and Memory of Frédéric Bastiat´s The Law
- Frédéric Bastiat: Praxeologist Theoretician
- To Err is Human: Bastiat on Value and Progress
- Frédéric Bastiat as an Austrian Economist
- Bastiat: A Pioneer in Constitutional Political Economy
- "Bastiat's Law"
- The Neglect of Bastiat's School by English-Speaking Economists: A Puzzle Resolved
- Bastiat and the French School of Laissez-Faire
