A Stitch in Haste

Just some pass-alongs.

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The 2010 Templeton Fellowships will be awarded for the best essay on the topic:

“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.”
–Frederic Bastiat (1801–1850)

Assuming Bastiat is correct, what ideas or reforms could be developed that would make people better aware that government wants to live at their expense?

For those 35 and younger only. More info here.

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[International Policy Network's] Bastiat Prize for Journalism was inspired by the 19th-century French philosopher and journalist Frédéric Bastiat.

The prize was developed to encourage and reward writers whose published works promote the institutions of a free society: limited government, rule of law brokered by an independent judiciary, protection of private property, free markets, free speech, and sound science.

There are prizes for both “journalism” and “online journalism.” Unfortunately, the deadline is June 30. Those with already-published blogposts might be interested, however.

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[The Foundation for Economic Education] invites writers to address the following:

The conventional wisdom says the 1999-2006 residential real estate “bubble” in the U.S. and the subsequent collapse of global financial markets were caused by a failure of the free market. What’s wrong with that assertion?

Essays must be no more than 2,000 words. Surely a blogger can (and should) win this one!

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