The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say: Markets and Virtue

The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say: Markets and Virtue
ISBN-10
1134630816
ISBN-13
9781134630813
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
2002-01-31
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Evelyn L. Forget

Description

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

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