Sophisms

Bastiat's short essays, which he grouped under the title "Economic Sophisms," are beloved by friends of laissez-faire.

For Love of Laissez-Faire James Grant 2011

Sophisms, and therefore pursu'd the Dictates of her own Fancy; and, like

Exilius 2008

Behold what Sophisms one can find to justify any Attempt, tho 'never so mad or desperate; and even affront, if not quite reverse the Laws of Nature: That if the Feebleness of our Hands did not moderate the Fury of our Heads, Women sometimes would exceed the fiercest Savages, especially when affronted in their Amours; which brings into my Mind a Verse or two on such an Occasion.

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Behold what Sophisms one can find to justify any Attempt, tho 'never so mad or desperate; and even affront, if not quite reverse the Laws of Nature: That if the Feebleness of our Hands did not moderate the Fury of our Heads, Women sometimes would exceed the fiercest Savages, especially when affronted in their Amours; which brings into my Mind a Verse or two on such an Occasion.

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Sophisms don't cost a shekel and sell well to the general public, especially on the other shore of the Atlantic.

Bibi Vigilante 2006

Read, Stephen (ed.), 1993, Sophisms in Medieval L.gic and Grammar, Acts of the 8th European Symposium for Medieval L.gic and Semantics, Kluwer. de Rijk, L. M.,

Richard the Sophister Streveler, Paul 2005

Bastiat had a gift for pointing out absurdities; his little book Economic Sophisms is as close to humor as economics has ever come.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Bastiat had a gift for pointing out absurdities; his little book Economic Sophisms is as close to humor as economics has ever come.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Whims, some Sophisms, some artfull Addresses to superstitious Notions, some keen attempts upon the Passions, in this Pamphlet.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 March 1776 1963

[324] "_Sophisms of Freetrade_, and popular Political Economy examined."

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke