A treatise on political economy : or, The production, distribution & consumption of wealth / by J.-B. Say.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Say, Jean Baptiste, 1767-1832.

Contributor:

Prinsep, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1789-1864.

Biddle, Clement C. (Clement Cornell), 1784-1855.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Physical Description:

269 p.

Place of Publication:

Kitchener, Canada : Batoche, 2001.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

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Introduction

Book I.

Of the Production of Wealth.

Chapter I.

Of What Is to Be Understood by the Term, Production.

Chapter II.

Of the Different Kinds of Industry, and the Mode in Which They Concur in Production.

Chapter III.

Of the Nature of Capital, and the Mode in Which it Concurs in the Business of Production.

Chapter IV.

On Natural Agents That Assist in the Production of Wealth, and Specially of Land.

Chapter V.

On the Mode in Which Industry, Capital, and Natural Agents Unite in Production.

Chapter VI.

Of Operations Alike Common to All Branches of Industry.

Chapter VII.

Of the Labour of Mankind, of Nature, and of Machinery Respectively.

Chapter VIII.

Of the Advantages and Disadvantages Resulting from Division of Labour, and of the Extent to Which it May Be Carried.

Chapter IX. Of the Different Methods of Employing Commercial Industry, and the Mode in Which They Concur in Production.

Chapter X.

Of the Transformations Undergone by Capital in The Progress of Production

Chapter XI

Of the Formation and Multiplication of Capital.

Chapter XII

Of Unproductive Capital

Chapter XIII

Of Immaterial Products, or Values Consumed at the Moment of Production.

Chapter XIV.

Of the Right of Property.

Chapter XV.

Of the Demand or Market for Products.

Chapter XVI.

Of the Benefits Resulting from the Quick Circulation of Money and Commodities.

Chapter XVII.

Of the Effect of Government Regulations Intended to Influence Production.

Section I.

Effect of Regulations prescribing the Nature of Products.

Digression: Upon What Is Called the Balance of Trade.

Section II.

Of the Effect of Regulations fixing the Manner of Production.

Section III.

Of Privileged Trading Companies.

Section IV.

Of regulations affecting the Corn Trade.

Chapter XVIII.

Of the Effect upon National Wealth, Resulting from the Productive Efforts of Public

Chapter XIX.

Of Colonies and Their Products.

Chapter XX.

Of Temporary and Permanent Emigration, Considered in Reference to National Wealth.

Chapter XXI.

Of the Nature and Uses of Money.

General Remarks.

Section II.

Of the Material of Money.

Of the Accession of Value a Commodity receives by being Vested with the Character of

Of the Utility of Coinage, and of the Charge of its Execution.

Section V.

Of Alterations of the Standard Money.

Section VI.

Of the reason why Money is neither a Sign nor a Measure.

Section VII.

Of a Peculiarity that should be attended to, in estimating the Sums mentioned in History.

Section VIII.

Of the Absence of any fixed ratio of Value between one Metal and another.

Section IX.

Of Money as it ought to be.

Section X.

Of a Copper and Base Metal Coinage.

Section XI.

Of the preferable Form of Coined Money.

Section XII.

Of the Party, on whom the Loss of the Coin by Wear should properly fall.

Chapter XXII.

Of Signs or Representatives of Money.

Of Bills of Exchange and Letters of Credit.

Of Banks of Deposit.

Of Banks of Circulation or Discount, and of Bank-notes, or Convertible Paper.

Of Paper-Money.

Notes

Book II.

Of the Distribution of Wealth

Chapter I. Of the Basis of Value

and of Supply and Demand.

The Sources of Revenue.

Of Real and Relative Variation of Price.

Chapter IV.

Of Nominal Variation of Price, and of the Peculiar Value of Bullion and of Coin.

Of the Manner in which Revenue is Distributed Amongst Society.

Of What Branches of Production Yield the most Liberal Recompense to Productive Agency.

Of the Revenue of Industry.

Of the Profits of Industry in general.

Of the Profits of the Man of Science.

Of the Profits of the Master-agent, or Adventurer, in Industry.

Of the Profits of the Operative Labourer.

Of the Independence accruing to the Moderns from the Advancement of Industry.

Of the Revenue of Capital.

Of Loans at Interest.

Of the Profits of Capital.

Of the Employments of Capital most beneficial to Society.

Chapter IX.

Of the Revenue of Land.

Of the Profit of Landed Property.

Of Rent.

Of the Effect of Revenue Derived by One Nation from Another.

Chapter XI.

Of the Mode in Which the Quantity of the Product Affects Population.

Of Population, as connected with Political Economy.

Of the influence of the Quality of a national product upon the local distribution of the

Book III.

Of the Consumption of Wealth.

Of the Different Kinds of Consumption.

Of the Effect of Consumption in General.

Of the Effect of Productive Consumption.

Of the Effect of Unproductive Consumption in General.

Of Individual Consumption - Its Motives and its Effects.

On Public Consumption.

Of the Nature and general Effect of Public Consumption.

Of the principal Objects of National Expenditure.

Of the Actual Contributors to Public Consumption.

Of Taxation.

Section I

Of the Effect of all kinds of Taxation in general.

Of the different Modes of Assessment, and the Classes they press ups respectively.

Of Taxation in Kind.

Of the Territorial or Land-Tax of England.

Of National Debt.

Of the Contracting Debt by National Authority, and of its general Effect.

Of public Credit, its Basis, and the Circumstances that endanger its Solidity.

Appendix A.

Appendix B.

Notes.

Notes:

With reproduction of t.p. of 1880 ed. which was translated from the 4th ed. of the French, by C. R. Princep, with notes by the translator, a New American ed. containing a translation of the introd. and additional notes by Clement C. Biddle, published in Philadelphia by Claxton, Remsen & Haggelfinger.

OCLC:

842972698