IPA Events

Bastiat Forums - Inaugural Event

1st December, 2011
07:00pm
Location: The Watson's Bay Hotel, 1 Military Rd, Watsons Bay

 

Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, journalist, and member of the French Assembly.

An address by Dr David M. Hart

Sydney, Thursday December 1, 2011

7pm for 7.30pm
At the Watson's Bay Hotel, Watson's Bay
Cost $40. Students $30.
A 2 course meal will be served (drinks extra)

Why is Bastiat important in the modern era? He showed that the freedom to work and trade is the most universally useful condition for mankind. It is the fulcrum of society and even of human life. Trade is intrinsic to property and to restrict the one is to shake the foundations of the other. Governments around the world are introducing more regulation to deal the current world economic crisis which they perceive as the failure of the free market, when it is in fact the consequence of decades of too much government.

RSVP to Peter Brun on 0417 494 392, or Nadia Weiner Bloom on 0408 194 001.

Speakers

Dr David M. Hart

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