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… have been announced. My congratulations to John Hasnas for winning the Bastiat Prize for 2009<\/a>. Hasnas beat out former winner Robert Guest with this superb piece of his: “The ‘Unseen’ Deserve Empathy, Too.”<\/a> Going by previous years, I have no doubt that all the nominees were most worthy.<\/p>\n

I won the prize in 2007<\/a>, and the prize candlestick, which I can see now across the room, is one of my treasured possessions. The prize money enabled me to give up freelance journalism and focus on writing novels, an effect that, for the Bastiat organisers, was surely in the category of “that which is not seen.” I’d count it as a one-off positive externality, so all’s well.<\/p>\n

This year, the Bastiat guys also instituted a separate prize for online journalism. I was one of the judges for this, along with Jimmy Wales, Esther Dyson and Scott Banister, and was blown away by the quality of the entries I read. I’m delighted that the prize has been shared<\/a> by Daniel Hannan and Shikha Dalmia—both of them deserve it, and this is a fitting result.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Oh, and here’s the column I wrote after I won the Bastiat Prize in 2007: “Remembering Frédéric Bastiat.”<\/a> And here are the three pieces I’d entered that won me the prize: <\/p>\n

“Where’s the Freedom Party?”<\/a>
\n“A Beast Called Government.”<\/a>
\n“The Devil’s Compassion.”<\/a><\/p>\n

You can read all 48 installments of my column for Mint<\/i>, Thinking it Through<\/i>, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… have been announced. My congratulations to John Hasnas for winning the Bastiat Prize for 2009<\/a>. Hasnas beat out former winner Robert Guest with this superb piece of his: “The ‘Unseen’ Deserve Empathy, Too.”<\/a> Going by previous years, I have no doubt that all the nominees were most worthy.<\/p>\n

I won the prize in 2007<\/a>, and the prize candlestick, which I can see now across the room, is one of my treasured possessions. The prize money enabled me to give up freelance journalism and focus on writing novels, an effect that, for the Bastiat organisers, was surely in the category of “that which is not seen.” I’d count it as a one-off positive externality, so all’s well.<\/p>\n

This year, the Bastiat guys also instituted a separate prize for online journalism. I was one of the judges for this, along with Jimmy Wales, Esther Dyson and Scott Banister, and was blown away by the quality of the entries I read. I’m delighted that the prize has been shared<\/a> by Daniel Hannan and Shikha Dalmia—both of them deserve it, and this is a fitting result.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Oh, and here’s the column I wrote after I won the Bastiat Prize in 2007: “Remembering Frédéric Bastiat.”<\/a> And here are the three pieces I’d entered that won me the prize: <\/p>\n

“Where’s the Freedom Party?”<\/a>
\n“A Beast Called Government.”<\/a>
\n“The Devil’s Compassion.”<\/a><\/p>\n

You can read all 48 installments of my column for Mint<\/i>, Thinking it Through<\/i>, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Bastiat Winners for 2009\u2026 - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-bastiat-winners-for-2009\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Bastiat Winners for 2009\u2026 - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"... have been announced. My congratulations to John Hasnas for winning the Bastiat Prize for 2009. 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