The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say - Markets and Virtue (Hardcover)

Jean-Baptiste Say was one of the most influential and colourful figures of classical economics. This book uses archival and published sources to place Say in context, at the confluence of several major currents in social philosophy. Familiar with the writers of the Scottish enlightenment, especially Adam Smith, he was profoundly influenced by the Revolution, the Terror and Bonaparte's Empire, and by the republican thinkers with whom he associated. His long and varied career included periods as a journalist, an editor, a tribune under Bonaparte, a cotton manufacturer, and, ultimately, as the most important political economist in France. The Say that emerges from this study is far from being the one dimensional popularizer of Smith and proponent of libertarian ideology that he is often depicted as. Rather he is an 18th-century republican trying to knit togther support for free markets and industrial development with a profound respect for the importance of the legislator, the administrator and the educator in the creation and maintenance of civil society. This book contains an English translation of the full text of "Olbie", Say's Utopian novel written in the style of Rousseau for an

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	2000
Authors:	Evelyn L. Forget
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-20308-1
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy
LSN:	0-415-20308-2
Barcode:	9780415203081

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