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Jean-Baptiste Say : revolutionary, entrepreneur, economist / Evert Schoorl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schoorl, Evert, author.
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
- Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 152
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Say, Jean Baptiste, 1767-1832.
- Say, Jean Baptiste.
- Economists--France--Biography.
- Economists.
- Economics--France--History.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Treatise of political economy and many other economic writings.
- Contents:
- Youthful revolutionary
- At the crossroads of literature, politics and economics
- A dissident under the consulate
- Reluctant entrepreneur
- A rentier in a depressed economy
- Spying in Britain
- A dissident during the Restauration
- Late recognition
- The final years
- Among masters, peers and students
- Alive after 200 years.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-203-07356-8
- 1-283-89411-4
- 1-135-10411-5
- 9780203073568
- OCLC:
- 823389751
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