Money and banking in Jean-Baptiste Say's economic thought / Gilles Jacoud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacoud, Gilles.

Series:

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 151.

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 151

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Say, Jean Baptiste, 1767-1832.

Say, Jean Baptiste.

Physical Description:

xv, 266 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

Making available in English some texts by the eminent French economist, this volume present extracts from Catechism of Political Economy, Complete Course in Practical Political Economy, and A Treatise on Political Economy as well as a selection of articles and notes. Jacoud (economics, U. of Saint-Etienne, France) provides a lengthy introduction and appends a chronological table. Topics include the nature and uses of money, why the value of silver did not decrease more following the discovery of America, the manufacture of metallic monies, the profit possible from the manufacture of monies, and representative signs of money, among others. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction / Gilles Jacoud

Extracts from the Catechism of political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say

Of money

Of the representative signs of money

Of monies : extracts from the complete course in practical political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say

Of the nature and uses of money

Of the material of money

Of the foundation of the value of monies

Why the value of silver did not decrease more following the discovery of America

Of the relative value of different metals used as money

Of the manufacture of metallic monies

Of the profit it is possible to make from the manufacture of coinage

Of the attempts which have been made to have a measure of values

Of the value of precious metals compared with that of wheat, from ancient times

Evaluation of historical amounts

Of paper monies

Of the representative signs of money : extracts from the complete course in practical political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say

General characteristics of representative signs

Of trust notes and banks of circulation

Abuse of banks of circulation

Of deposit banks and party transfers

Of promissory notes, bills of exchange and foreign exchange

Extracts from a Treatise on Political Economy / Jean-Baptiste Say

Extracts from editions 1, 2 and 3 of a Treatise on political economy

Extracts from editions 5 and 6 of a Treatise on political economy

Manuscripts, notes and varied texts / Jean-Baptiste Say

Tribunat : report made on behalf of the finance section on the projected law concerning the recoinage of monies

Notes on Henri Storch's Cours d'économie politique

Of the commercial crisis in England

Extracts from correspondence

Plan for a new money in Ricardo's style

Of the debasement of monies

Chronological table / Gilles Jacoud.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415677370

0415677378

9780203075050

0203075056

OCLC:

794041112