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2 - Frédéric BASTIAT (1801–1850). Letter, Paris, 30 November 184…
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Frédéric BASTIAT (1801–1850). Letter, Paris, 30 November 1849, to George R. Porter in London; 1 page, in-8. [George Richardson Porter (1792–1852), an English statistician, worked at the Board of Trade; he had married Sarah Ricardo, David Ricardo’s sister.] He presents Porter with a copy of his book *Economic Harmonies*, which he has just published: ‘It deals with the issues only from a very general point of view, and in that respect it is hardly worthy of appreciation by the eminently practical minds of your compatriots. But I am in a country where even the most basic ideas need to be clarified.’ This is but the first volume of the edifice…
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