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Say's contribution to the theory of the entrepreneur. It is the purpose of this paper to assess Say's contribution to this subject, and to attempt in some small measure to correct the gross neglect that Say has suffered in the various histories of economic thought. Section II outlines what Say wrote on the concept of the entrepreneur

One of the most original and influential of these early nineteenth-century classical liberals was the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say. Born on January 5, 1767, Say published the first edition of his famous Treatise on Political Economy in 1803. The book was disliked by Napoleon, who prevented it from staying in print during his reign in France.

Jean-Baptiste Say is generally portrayed as an unrelenting champion of laissez faire who believed commercial activity promoted economic well-being. However, I develop a more nuanced portrait of Say’s thinking by showing that he did not believe that free trade was an unmitigated good. He thus identified several exceptions to free international trade that justified government intervention in ...

Jean-Baptiste Say (French: [ʒɑ̃batist sɛ]; 5 January 1767 – 15 November 1832) was a liberal French economist and businessman who argued in favor of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business. He is best known for Say's law—also known as the law of markets—which he popularized.

One of the very best sources is Jean Baptiste Say, the foremost French political economist in the early 1800s. An elaborator on Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and a vigorous defender of economic freedom, which arises from the defense of private property rights, his Treatise on Political Economy was highly influential and widely used as a ...

Jean Baptiste Say, Smith’s most influential disciple, argued on the other hand, as had his mentor, that the gains from global population growth, spread over vast expanses of trading, trigger...

One of the most original and influential of these early nineteenth-century classical liberals was the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say. Born on January 5 1767, Say published the first edition of his famous Treatise on Political Economy in 1803. The book was disliked by Napoleon, who prevented it from staying in print during his reign in France.

Jean-Baptiste Say, french economist born in the XVIII century, described entrepreneurs as. “individuals who create value in an economy by moving resources out of areas of low productivity into ...