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Frédéric Bastiat

1801 - 1850

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Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (; French: [klod fʁedeʁik bastja]; 30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was a French economist, writer and a prominent member of the French Liberal School.A member of the French National Assembly, Bastiat developed the economic concept of opportunity cost and introduced the parable of the broken window. He was described as "the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived" by economic theorist Joseph Schumpeter.As an advocate of classical economics and the economics of Adam Smith, his views favored a free market and influenced the Austrian School. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frédéric Bastiat has received more than 830,781 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Frédéric Bastiat is the 39th most popular economist (up from 45th in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from France (up from 693rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Economist.

Bastiat is most famous for his essay "What is Seen and What is Not Seen" which explains how the unseen costs of government intervention are often much greater than the benefits.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Frédéric Bastiat has had the most page views in the with 81,820 views, followed by French (22,449), and Spanish (16,154). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are German (184.87%), Lojban (42.35%), and Galician (36.41%)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Frédéric Bastiat ranks 39 out of 414. Before him are Elinor Ostrom, Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen, Léon Walras, Wassily Leontief, and Karl Polanyi. After him are Robert Solow, Maurice Allais, Ronald Coase, Friedrich List, Paul Krugman, and Bernard Mandeville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Frédéric Bastiat ranks 5. Before him are Vincenzo Bellini, Brigham Young, Gustav Fechner, and Josip Jelačić. After him are Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, John of Saxony, Joseph Plateau, Johannes Peter Müller, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, and John Henry Newman. Among people deceased in 1850, Frédéric Bastiat ranks 10. Before him are William Wordsworth, Zachary Taylor, Daoguang Emperor, Báb, José de San Martín, and Marie Tussaud. After him are Louise of Orléans, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Lin Zexu, Germain Henri Hess, José Gervasio Artigas, and Robert Peel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric Bastiat ranks 658 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel Lefebvre (1905), Pérotin (1160), Marin Marais (1656), Simone Veil (1927), Paul Mauriat (1925), and Marie Tussaud (1761). After him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Raoul Dufy (1877), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Aristide Maillol (1861), Hubert de Givenchy (1927), and Georges Sorel (1847).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Frédéric Bastiat ranks 8. Before him are Frédéric Passy (1822), François Quesnay (1694), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Jacques Delors (1925), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), and Léon Walras (1834). After him are Maurice Allais (1911), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Gérard Debreu (1921), Jean Tirole (1953), and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806).

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