Format:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415665179
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9781135104115
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Series
Content:
This volume is the first full-length biography of Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), the most famous French classical economist
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Youthful revolutionary -- Early youth -- Youthful revolutionary -- La Décade -- The organ of the Idéologie -- 2 At the crossroads of literature, politics and economics -- A promising young man of letters -- Revolution and progress -- La Société des Amis des Noirs -- Enlightenment and economics -- 3 A dissident under the Consulate -- Political theory and practice -- Olbie -- Olbian economics -- From manners to markets: the Traité of 1803 -- Say's entrepreneur in 1803 -- Bonaparte -- 4 Reluctant entrepreneur -- Auchy -- Technical and commercial problems -- Decline -- Reorientation -- Imperial bureaucracy -- Leaving Auchy -- 5 A rentier in a depressed economy -- Family man -- Managing a rentier's fortune -- Finally: the Traité's second edition -- The original Say of 1814 -- Say's entrepreneur in 1814 -- The Third Class of the Institut -- 6 Spying in Britain -- A secret mission -- Spy, tourist and scholar -- Among economists and philosophers -- De l'Angleterre et des Anglais -- Positive observations: steam and scale -- 7 A dissident under the Restauration -- The enticement of the United States -- In search of a job -- A French liberal among Philosophical Radicals -- The value riddle -- Household affairs -- Praise abroad -- 8 Late recognition -- Conservatoire professor -- National and international reputation -- The Letters to Malthus -- 'It is one and the same thing' -- Say's law and population -- Professional and private contacts -- The economics of slavery -- 'Slavery is incompatible with productive industry' -- 9 The final years -- The platform of La Revue Encyclopédique -- The British connections -- Failed Académicien -- Collège de France -- An unfinished agenda -- Producer, consumer, citizen -- 10 Among masters, peers and students
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'I adore Adam Smith: he is my master' -- 'It is absolutely necessary to combat the Ricardian School' -- 'You have signalled the great and happy effects of machinery' -- 11 Alive after 200 years -- Three revolutions -- Say and the historians -- The Ricardian partisans -- Three balanced assessments -- Two true believers -- Alive and controversial -- Notes -- Archival sources -- References -- Index of names
Additional Edition:
Print version Schoorl, Evert Jean-Baptiste Say Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415665179
Language:
English
Keywords:
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