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A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting. To the Honourable Members of the Chamber of Deputies.
26. Feb. 2023 · The "Candle Maker's Petition" was a complaint written by French economist Bastiat to his government to oppose import tariffs. Bastiat instead favored free markets for...
Contained within Economic Sophisms is the satirical parable known as the candlemakers' petition in which candlemakers and tallow producers lobby the Chamber of Deputies of the French July Monarchy (1830–1848) to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.
21. März 2024 · Eines der berühmtesten Werke von Frédéric Bastiat ist „Die Petition der Kerzenmacher“. Es ist eine brillante Satire, die die Absurdität von Protektionismus und staatlichen Eingriffen in die Wirtschaft bloßstellt. Doch „The Candlemakers‘ Petition“ ist nicht nur ein satirisches Meisterwerk.
The Candlemakers' Petition. Frederic Bastiat. From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, Candlesticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from the Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting. I.7.1. To the Honorable Members of the Chamber of Deputies. I.7.2. Gentlemen: I.7.3.
A Petition from the Manufacturers of Candles, Wax-Lights, Lamps, Chandeliers, Reflectors, Snuffers, Extinguishers; and from the Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Every Thing Used for Lights.
Bastiat’s “A Petition,” usually referred to now as “The Petition of the Candlemakers,” displays his rhetorical skill and rakish tone, as this excerpt illustrates: We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a foreign rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light, that he is ...
