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

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 volume reassesses Say's political economy by locating the author's ideas amidst the intellectual upheavels of the Ancien Régime and revolutionary France.

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 an