Jean-Baptiste Say, 1767-1832. Jean-Baptiste Say was born in Lyons to a family of textile merchants of Huguenot extraction. In 1787, after spending two years in England apprenticed to a merchant, Say took a job at an insurance company in Paris run by Clavi re (later to become Minister of Finance). An ardent republican, Say was overjoyed by the French Revolution. He served as a volunteer in the ...

Say's Law and Supply Side Economics How could it be possible that there should now be bought and sold in France five or six times as many commodities as in the miserable reign of Charles VI Jean Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy, 1803 In France, John Baptist Say has the merit of producing a very superior work on the subject of Political Economy. His arrangement is luminous, ideas ...

Jean-Baptiste Say January 5, 1767, Lyon, France November 15, 1832, Paris, France Letters to Malthus on Several Subjects of Political Economy (1821) A Treatise on Political Economy ...