Jean-Baptiste Say: Revolutionary, Entrepreneur, Economist(Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

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. He struggled with Bonaparte, was the owner of a cotton spinning mill, and published his famous Trea