Frédéric Bastiat, France (1801-1850)
French economist, born in Mugron, near Bayonne, France. He was best known for his journalistic writing in favour of free trade and the economics of the Scotsman Adam Smith. At the time of the 1848 revolution he was regarded as the mastermind of the French Free Trade movement. In 1848 he was a member of the Constitutional Assembly and founder of the Associations pour la liberté des échange.