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Jean-Baptiste Say - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 - November 15, 1832) was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favour of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business. ..." |
| Born |
| 5 Jan 1767, in Lyon, France |
| Died |
| 15 Nov 1832, in Paris, France |
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| Biography |
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832)
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics |
Jean-Baptiste Say, 1767-1832
The History of Economic Thought, The New School for Social Research |
| Web Sites |
Centre de Recherche en Théorie Économique Jean-Baptiste Say
Université Paris Dauphine, in French |
| Articles |
Book Review -- J.B. Say: An Economist in Troubled Times, by Richard M. Ebeling, Freedom Daily, May 1998
" ... the main focus of his writings was to emphasize the importance of sound economic principles for understanding why the market should be freed from government control. He strongly believed that freeing the market was the best avenue for reducing poverty, eliminating the artificial inequalities in income created by state regulation ..." |
Book Review -- Say's Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How Macroeconomic Theory Lost Its Way, by Richard M. Ebeling, Freedom Daily, Feb 1999
"Beginning with Jean-Baptiste Say ... the law of markets was stated in the following way: Ultimately it is always goods that are traded for goods. ... In the more complex market economy ... the fundamental 'law of markets' still holds true: each participant in the market must first supply some good to earn the money that enables him to demand other goods." |
Jean-Baptiste Say: Neglected Champion of Laissez-Faire, by Larry J. Sechrest
"J.B. Say deserves to be remembered, especially by Austrian economists, as a pivotal figure in the history of economic thought. ... Say's approach to economics ... combines a healthy skepticism regarding the usefulness of statistical investigations with an emphasis on observing the facts of reality." |
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Jean-Baptiste Say (1767 - 1832), Religion and Liberty, Jun 2002
Related Topics: Entrepreneurship, France
"His Treatise, often described as a popularization of Smith's ideas, departed from the typical economics methodology of his day. This departure was based on Say's conviction that the study of economics should start not with abstract mathematical and statistical analyses but with the real experience of the human person." |
Monetary Central Planning and the State, Part 18: Say's Law of Markets and Keynesian Economics, by Richard M. Ebeling, Freedom Daily, Jun 1998
"The cobbler makes shoes and sells them ... The cobbler then uses the money he has earned ... to buy the food he wants to eat. ... his supply of shoes has been the means for him to demand a certain amount of food. This, in essence, is the meaning of Say's Law, named after the 19th-century French economist Jean-Baptiste Say. Say called it 'the law of markets.'" |
The Accidental Inventor of Today's Capitalism: Jean-Baptiste Say, No Longer a Villain, Stands Guard Over Free Markets, by Louis Uchitelle, The New York Times, 21 Feb 1998
"He came of age in the French Revolution. In the spirit of the times, he greatly admired Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. ... The Say family -- there were five children -- never came to America. ... But the economic theory he popularized in a French best seller eventually made the journey." |
| Writings |
| Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce, 1821 |
Traité d'économie politique, 1803
Electronic text available at French Wikisource |
| Books Authored |
A Treatise on Political Economy: or The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth, 1803
Related Topic: Economics
Electronic text available at The Library of Economics and Liberty. |
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