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 to

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) was one of the first great economists to have laid down the foundations of economic science. Author of the famous Treatise on Po

This book uses archival and published sources to place Say in context, at the confluence of several major currents in social philosophy. The Say that emerges fr