1st Edition

Jean-Baptiste Say and Political Economy

By Jean-Baptiste Say, Gilles Jacoud Copyright 2017
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) was one of the first great economists to have laid down the foundations of economic science. Author of the famous Treatise on Political Economy in 1803, which was revised and re-edited on several occasions, he published numerous other works including a voluminous Complete Course in Practical Political Economy in 1828–9. He also taught political economy... Read more

1 Introduction





GILLES JACOUD



PART I ‘Preliminary discourse’ from A Treatise on Political Economy





JEAN-BAPTISTE SAY





2 ‘Preliminary discourse’ from the first edition of A Treatise on Political Economy





3 ‘Preliminary discourse’ from editions 2, 3 and 4 of A Treatise on Political Economy





4 ‘Preliminary discourse’ from editions 5 and 6 of A Treatise on Political Economy



PART II Opening discourses





JEAN-BAPTISTE SAY





5 Conservatory of Arts and Trades. Opening discourse of the course in industrial economy, pronounced on the 2nd December 1820





6 Opening discourse of the course in industrial economy. November 1828





7 Collège de France. Opening discourse of the course on political economy of the 1831–1832 school year





8 Opening discourse of the course on political economy, pronounced by the author shortly before his death, for the beginning of the 1832–1833 school year



PART III ‘General considerations’ from the Complete Course in Practical Political Economy





JEAN-BAPTISTE SAY





9 ‘General considerations’ from the Complete Course in Practical Political Economy 



PART IV History of economic thought





JEAN-BAPTISTE SAY





10 An historical sketch of the progress of political economy





11 An abridged history of the progress of political economy





12 Bibliography of political economy

Biography

Gilles Jacoud is Professor of Economics at the University of Saint-Étienne, France. He is the author of several books and articles on money and banking and on the history of economic thought.