Jean-Baptiste Say : Revolutionary, Entrepreneur, 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....
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- '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.