An Economist in Troubled Times

Download or read book An Economist in Troubled Times written by Jean Baptiste Say and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century economist J.B. Say is remembered as the author of the adage "supply creates its own demand". His life coincided with the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. The pieces included here are well-chosen examples of Say's viewswritten in his own nontechnical languageon contemporary events and on the development of economics as a social science. Especially of interest to historians and students of economics.