Portal:Libertarianism/de Molinari

Gustave de Molinari (March 3, 1819 - January 28, 1912) was an economist born in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.

Throughout his life, together with the other Économistes, Molinari defended peace, free trade, freedom of speech, freedom of association (including voluntary trade unions), all Negative Liberties, and opposed slavery, colonialism, mercantilism, protectionism, imperialism, nationalism, corporatism, economic interventionism, government control of arts and education, and, in general, all of what he considered to be restraints on liberty. Living in Paris, in the 1840s, he took part in the "Ligue pour la Liberté des Échanges" (Free Trade League), animated by Frederic Bastiat. On his death bed in 1850, Bastiat described Molinari as the continuator of his works.