About Robert F. Graboyes
About Bastiat’s Window
Robert Graboyes is an economist, journalist, musician/composer, and award-winning professor who writes on the seen and the unseen in economics, ethics, health, technology, and culture. Frédéric Bastiat was a 19th Century economist whose Parable of the Broken Window crystallized the distinction between the seen and the unseen in economics and in life. In 2014, Graboyes received the Reason Foundation’s Bastiat Prize for Journalism. In announcing the award, the founder of the prize said: “Bob Graboyes’ concise, witty explanations of the power of technology and dangers of government interference perfectly exemplified the essence of the prize; he is a modern day Bastiat. ”
Bastiat’s Window draws material from various facets of Graboyes’s background. He grew up in the Jim Crow-era South; played and wrote music from an early age; studied literature in college; developed economic expertise in international finance, healthcare, and technology; traveled professionally in Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central Asia.