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A good starting point is

Henry Hazlitt's classic: Economics in one Lesson. The shortest and surest way to understand basic economics. He built e.g. his "broken window fallacy" upon the works of

 

 



Claude Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850):
E.g. "The Law", "The State", "That Which Is Not Seen and That Which is Seen". This last sentence inspired Thomas Sowell's citation "There are no solutions, only trade-offs."

Bastiat's description of "legal plunder" is only surpassed by his "Candlemakers' Petition".

Links:
Batiat.net
Batiat.org

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