That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen

"That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen" is an essay written by French economist Frédéric Bastiat and first published in 1850. The essay was the first appearance of the well-known parable of the broken window, and is noted as the inspiration for Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.

Links

 * Excerpt "The Broken Window"
 * Excerpt "Taxes"
 * Excerpt "Should the State Support the Arts?"
 * Excerpt "Credit"
 * Audio reading
 * Full text at Wikisource
 * "Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas" (original essay, in French)
 * That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen (essay in English)
 * That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen (essay in English)


 * Articles, essays and reviews
 * "Windfall Profits and That Which Is Not Seen" by Art Carden, June 2009
 * "Seen and Unseen" by Tibor R. Machan, July 2000
 * "What is Not Seen" by Tibor R. Machan, June 2001
 * "The Seen and Unseen of Obama’s Stimulus Plans" by Danny Sanchez, December 2009
 * "Seen and Unseen Cost of Patents" by Jeffrey Tucker, January 2009
 * "Why Bastiat Is Still Great" by Mark Thornton, April 2011
 * The Seen, the Unseen, and the Hidden Costs of Statism by Lew Rockwell, July 2008
 * "What is Seen and Unseen on the Gulf Coast" by Max Raskin, September 2007
 * "Bastiat Does Not Go Far Enough" by Louis E. Carabini, Winter 2007


 * "The Broken Window Fallacy" video ("no accents" version)