Jean-Baptiste Say

Evert Schoorl

• 04 maart 2015
• 9781138901964

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This volume is the first full-length biography of Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), the most famous French classical economist.

This volume is the first full-length biography of Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), the most famous French classical economist. During his lifetime Say actively took part in three revolutions: the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the establishment of economics as an academic discipline. He struggled with Bonaparte, was the owner of a cotton spinning mill, and published his famous Treatise of political economy and many other economic writings.