Why are Indians more into rent seeking than profit seeking? Why do so many of us prefer 'plunder' over 'labor'? Frédéric Bastiat's masterpiece, The Law, was written in France in 1850-- but there may be no modern book with a better diagnosis of what ails us.
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We live in an age of post-truth, fueled by social media. This is unique to our times, right? Nuh-uh! It's all been done, and to give you an eerie sense of deja vu, we present an excerpt from The Psychology of Jingoism by John Atkinson Hobson, published in 1901.