Gustave de Molinari

1819 - 1912

Titles on this disk:

• author: Cours d’Économie Politique vol. 1
• author: Cours d’Économie Politique vol. 2
• author: Notions fondamentales d’Économie politique et programme économique
• author: The Society of Tomorrow: A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization
• author: Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare: Entretiens sur les lois économiques et défense de la propriété

Quotation:

• (12 January, 2009) Gustave de Molinari argues that political parties are like “actual armies” who are trained to seize power and reward their supporters with jobs and special privileges (1904)

About this person:

Gustave de Molinari was born in Liège on March 3, 1819 and died in Adinkerque on January 28, 1912. He was the leading representative of the laissez-faire school of classical liberalism in France in the second half of the 19 th century and was still campaigning against protectionism, statism, militarism, colonialism, and socialism into his 90s on the eve of the First World War. As he said shortly before his death, his classical liberal views had remained the same throughout his long life but the world around him had managed to turn full circle in the meantime.