From Francois-Rene Rideau Sun Nov 3 19:38:45 2002 From: Francois-Rene Rideau (Francois-Rene Rideau) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:38:45 +0100 Subject: news from bastiat.org Message-ID: <20021103193845.GA1074@Kadath> Dear Bastiat fans, I have noticeably improved the spanish section of the site bastiat.org http://bastiat.org/es/ but I would still use some help from a Spanish-speaking editor. Also, the site www.eumed.net, that used to host several spanish translations of Bastiat, has disappeared. I could retrieve the files from Google's cache, but I don't have much time to publish them, and would be glad if the site went back online. On another note, I've added counters to the french and english parts of the site, and it seems we only have some fifty daily hits in the english-speaking section, and twice that in the french-speaking section (now, we have many more digitized e-texts on the french section, whereas we point to econlib.org for most English translations). Finally, I'll be speaking next weekend at the Liberty Conference Fall 2002 by Libertarian International and the Libertarian Alliance in London, UK: http://www.libertarian.to/conventions/london01.htm Yours freely, [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] [ TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing System | http://tunes.org ] "Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask what the government is doing to you." - David Friedman, "The Machinery of Freedom", p. 21 From mthornton@prodigy.net Fri Nov 8 16:22:16 2002 From: mthornton@prodigy.net (Mark Thornton) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:22:16 -0600 Subject: new article on Bastiat (plus translation!) in QJAE Message-ID: <000801c28743$0464f900$610aa8c0@markspc> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C28710.B67C2150 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have just received a copy of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian = Economics that contains my article "Frederic Bastiat's Views on the = Nature of Money," and Bastiat's article "What is Money." The original = Bastiat article appeared in the Journal des economistes (1849) and the = original translation by David Wells (1877) has long been out of print = and hard to find. Bastiat has been criticized in recent years for not = having written much on the topic of money, but in this article he shows = that he understood money much better than the top monetary theorist of = today, and certainly better than a Federal Reserve District Bank = President! Both are contained in Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 2002. This special issue = also contains new translations of Hayek and Bohm-Bawerk. I'm sorry that = I don't have reprints at this time but subscribers and libraries should = be receiving their copies soon. [shameless self-promotion: you get a = whole year's worth for less than $30 www.QJAE.org] Mark Dr. Mark Thornton Senior Fellow Ludwig von Mises Institute 518 West Magnolia Avenue Auburn, AL 36832-4528 mthornton@mises.org 334-321-2106 fax-321-2119 ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C28710.B67C2150 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I have just received a copy of the = Quarterly=20 Journal of Austrian Economics that contains my article "Frederic = Bastiat's Views=20 on the Nature of Money," and Bastiat's article "What is Money." The = original=20 Bastiat article appeared in the Journal des economistes (1849) and the = original=20 translation by David Wells (1877) has long been out of print and hard to = find.=20 Bastiat has been criticized in recent years for not having written much = on the=20 topic of money, but in this article he shows that he understood money = much=20 better than the top monetary theorist of today, and certainly better = than a=20 Federal Reserve District Bank President!
 
Both are contained in Volume 5, Number = 3, Fall=20 2002. This special issue also contains new translations of Hayek = and=20 Bohm-Bawerk. I'm sorry that I don't have reprints at this time but = subscribers=20 and libraries should be receiving their copies soon. [shameless = self-promotion:=20 you get a whole year's worth for less than $30 www.QJAE.org]
 
Mark
 
Dr. Mark Thornton
Senior = Fellow
Ludwig von=20 Mises Institute
518 West Magnolia Avenue
Auburn, AL = 36832-4528
mthornton@mises.org
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------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C28710.B67C2150-- From Francois-Rene Rideau Mon Nov 11 14:45:28 2002 From: Francois-Rene Rideau (Francois-Rene Rideau) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:45:28 +0100 Subject: new article on Bastiat (plus translation!) in QJAE In-Reply-To: <000801c28743$0464f900$610aa8c0@markspc> References: <000801c28743$0464f900$610aa8c0@markspc> Message-ID: <20021111144528.GA23789@Samaris> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:22:16AM -0600, Mark Thornton wrote: > I have just received a copy of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics that contains my article "Frederic Bastiat's Views on the Nature of Money," and Bastiat's article "What is Money." The original Bastiat article appeared in the Journal des economistes (1849) and the original translation by David Wells (1877) has long been out of print and hard to find. Bastiat has been criticized in recent years for not having written much on the topic of money, but in this article he shows that he understood money much better than the top monetary theorist of today, and certainly better than a Federal Reserve District Bank President! Dear Mark, I'd like to get an electronic copy of Bastiat's article, so as to publish it on Bastiat.org (this article isn't available in English on the Internet yet). Who shall I contact at QJAE so as to obtain that? Did the QJAE reprint the original translation? Do you have access to more original (or new) Bastiat translations that aren't published on the web yet? Could you publish them? Even scanned pages (preferrably 300 dpi) or photocopies would be great. (But of course, fully digitized copies are better). As far as I can tell, Bastiat has written *a lot* on money! I guess the criticism may come from the fact that he didn't make it a sacro-sanct holy special economic construct, like statist economists do, but put it in context of human action in general, where the case becomes so clear and so simple that no big treatises are needed to say all there is to say. As Bastiat quoted from Bentham: "In political economy, there is much to learn and little to do." In a similar vein, Turgot has written nice things, too. PS: I'm back from the Libertarian Alliance / Libertarian International conference in London. It was truly great! I hope that electronic proceedings (and/or voice recordings of the speeches) will be available soon. Ok, I'm biases, since I spoke there myself - but a lot of speakers impressed me. Regards, [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] [ TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing System | http://tunes.org ] The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers. -- David Boaz, CATO Institute