in the satirical petition on behalf of french candlemakers, frederic bastiat, a french economist, called attention to cheap competition from afar:…

in the satirical petition on behalf of french candlemakers, frederic bastiat, a french economist, called attention to cheap competition from afar: sunlight. a law requireing the shuttering of windows during the day, he suggested would benefit not only candlemakers but “everything connected with lighting” and the country as whole. he explain: “as long as you exclude, as you do, iron, corn, foreign fabrics, in proportion as their price approximate to zero , what inconsistency it would be admit the light of the sun, the price of which is already at zero during the entire day “