Ross Parker » railways http://www.rossparker.com my personal homepage Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:32:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The great fiction http://www.rossparker.com/2009/08/16/the-great-fiction/ http://www.rossparker.com/2009/08/16/the-great-fiction/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:39:00 +0000 Ross http://www.rossparker.com/?p=312 A work meeting last week reminded me of Frederic Bastiat‘s quip:

The state is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Looking the quotation up, I discovered that Bastiat’s Economic Sophisms covered the economic impact of new railways. Can it be mere coincidence that this is what the meeting was about?

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