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Jean Baptiste Say

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jean Baptiste Say , 1767-1832, French economist. In A Treatise on Political Economy (1803, tr. from the 4th ed. 1821) he effectively reorganized and popularized the theories of Adam Smith. Say also developed a noted theory of markets and the concept of the entrepreneur. Say's law of markets holds that supply creates its own demand. His works include Cours complet d'économie politique pratique (6 vol., 1828-29). His grandson, Léon Say, 1826-96, was also an economist. As minister of finance under several governments he accomplished the payment of war debts to Germany... Read more
Jean Baptiste Say
Jean Baptiste Say The French economist Jean Baptiste Say (1767-1832), one of the founders of the classical school...was the first academic teacher of economics in France. Jean Baptiste Say was born on Jan. 5, 1767, in Lyons of a Protestant merchant... Read more
(Marie-Esprit-) Leon Walras
...advocate of cooperative s as an alternative to revolution, he ran a bank for producers' cooperatives with Leon Say (grandson of Jean-Baptiste Say ) from 1865 to 1868. At the Academy of Lausanne, Switz. (1870–92), he began the school of economics... Read more

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