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Using Bastiat

  • In the example corpus, bastiat often appears in combinations such as: bastiat was, frédéric bastiat.

Context around Bastiat

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 5 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

frederic 1× value 1× pierre 1× harmonies 1× 1850 1× domain 1×

Often after:

penned 1× wrote 1× accompanied 1× demonstrates 1× apparently 1× states 1× described 1× estate 1× points 1×

Sentence patterns with Bastiat

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

author frédéric bastiat wrote in 1× bastiat accompanied him 1× bastiat also explains 1× bastiat demonstrates that 1× by value bastiat apparently means 1× communal domain bastiat points out 1× economic harmonies bastiat states that 1× father pierre bastiat was a 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

as french economist 1× bastiat accompanied him 1× bastiat also explains 1× bastiat demonstrates that 1× by value bastiat 1× economist murray rothbard 1×

Common sentence endings:

cared for him 1× different from utility 1× ever totally disappear 1× for those goods 1× his theoretical inquiries 1× in the town 1×

Words around Bastiat

Just before it in the word index:

bastianini 2 bastianich 6 bastian 44 bastiaan 3 bastia 23 basti 26

Just after it in the word index:

bastick 2 bastid 2 bastidas 5 bastide 3 bastides 2 bastie 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aat 18 abhorrence 18 abms 18 absolutes 18 absorbance 18 abule 18

Corpus analysis for Bastiat

  • In this selection, "bastiat" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, frederic, value, pierre, penned, wrote and accompanied stand out and add context to how "bastiat" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include author frédéric bastiat wrote in and bastiat accompanied him. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "bastiat" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with bastiat

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Bastiat accompanied him and cared for him. (7 words)

His father, Pierre Bastiat, was a prominent businessman in the town. (11 words)

On his death bed in 1850, Bastiat described Molinari as the continuator of his works. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

Economist Murray Rothbard wrote that "Bastiat was indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable and devastating demolitions of protectionism and of all forms of government subsidy and control. (39 words)

There’s no documented evidence that the great 19 century free thinker Frederic Bastiat penned or spoke the previous line, but it doesn’t really matter whether he did or didn’t. (32 words)

The next year, when Bastiat was 24, his grandfather died, leaving the young man the family estate, thereby providing him with the means to further his theoretical inquiries. (28 words)

Example sentences (14)

There’s no documented evidence that the great 19 century free thinker Frederic Bastiat penned or spoke the previous line, but it doesn’t really matter whether he did or didn’t.

As French economist and author Frédéric Bastiat wrote in his book, “The Law,” in 1850, “You would oppose law to socialism.

Bastiat accompanied him and cared for him.

Bastiat also explains in The Law why his opinion is that the law cannot defend life, liberty, and property if it promotes socialist policies.

Bastiat demonstrates that this situation benefits both countries' consumers because it reduces the cost of shipping goods, and therefore reduces the price at market for those goods.

By "value," Bastiat apparently means market value; he emphasizes that this is quite different from utility.

Economist Murray Rothbard wrote that "Bastiat was indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable and devastating demolitions of protectionism and of all forms of government subsidy and control.

His father, Pierre Bastiat, was a prominent businessman in the town.

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In his Economic Harmonies, Bastiat states that, We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature.

Living in Paris during the 1840s, he participated with the Ligue pour la Liberté des Échanges (Free Trade League), based on the theories of Frédéric Bastiat.

On his death bed in 1850, Bastiat described Molinari as the continuator of his works.

The Bastiat estate in Mugron had been acquired during the French Revolution and had previously belonged to the Marquis of Poyanne.

The next year, when Bastiat was 24, his grandfather died, leaving the young man the family estate, thereby providing him with the means to further his theoretical inquiries.

This transformation of private property into the communal domain, Bastiat points out, does not imply that private property will ever totally disappear.

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Common combinations with bastiat

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