A Treatise on Political EconomyCosimo, Inc., 1 mars 2007 - 492 pages Business owners, economists, managers, and those interested in finance will find Say's ideas enlightening and informative. French economist JEAN-BAPTISE SAY (1767-1832) believed in the open-market system, supporting fewer laws putting restraints on businesses. He edited a paper on economics and became part of the French government in 1799. He is best remembered for Say's Law, which states that "supply creates its own demand." |
Table des matières
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BOOK I | 61 |
Of the nature of capital and the mode in which it concurs in the business | 71 |
Of the different methods of employing commercial industry and the mode | 99 |
Of the right of property | 127 |
Of the benefits resulting from the quick circulation of money and commodities | 140 |
Of the effect upon national wealth resulting from the productive efforts of | 199 |
OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH | 284 |
agency | 321 |
Of population as connected with political economy | 371 |
BOOK III | 387 |
Of the effect of productive consumption | 393 |
Of individual consumption its motives and its effects | 401 |
Of the actual contributors to public consumption Of the charges of public edifices and works 441 | 441 |
Appendix | 488 |
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A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and ... Jean Baptiste Say Affichage du livre entier - 1845 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
abundance Adam Smith advance advantage agents agriculture AMERICAN EDITOR amount annual assignats authority balance of trade bank Bank of England benefit branch bullion capital cent charge circulation circumstances coin coinage commerce commodities consequently consumed consumption cultivation demand derived dollars duction effect employed England equal established Europe exchange exertion expense export favour foreign France gold human import increase individual industry interest kind labour land less livres tournois loss Louis XIV mankind manufacture matter means ment merchant millions nature never object operation paid particular political economy population portion possession precious metals principles productive agency products consumed profit proportion proprietor purchase quantity ratio reason rent respect revenue seignorage silver Smith specie subsistence sumer supply supposed taxation thing tion trade unproductive utility wants wealth Wealth of Nations wheat whole yield
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Page 14 - ... binds together by one common tie of interest and intercourse, the universal society of nations throughout the civilized world.
Page 14 - Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole. By stimulating industry, by rewarding ingenuity, and by using most efficaciously the peculiar powers bestowed by nature, it distributes labour most effectively and most economically : while, by increasing the general mass of productions, it diffuses general...