Jean-Baptiste Say
Revolutionary, Entrepreneur, Economist
Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
2. At the Crossroads of Literature, Politics and Economics
3. A dissident under the consulate
4. Reluctant Entrepreneur
5. A rentier in a depressed economy
6. Spying in Britain
7. A dissident during the Restauration
8. Late Recognition
9. The Final Years
10. Among Masters, Peers and Students
11. Alive after 200 years.