The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say

Download or read book The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say written by Evelyn L. Forget and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 from this study is far from being the one dimensional popularizer of Smith and proponent of libertarian ideology that he is often depicted as. Rather he is an eighteenth-century republican trying to knit togther support for free markets and industrial development with a profound respect for the importance of the legislator, the administrator and the educator in the creation and maintenance of civil society