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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.
The Say family is a most remarkable one. His grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Say, was a well-known economist.His brother Louis-Auguste Say (1774–1840) was a director of a sugar refinery at Nantes who wrote several books on economics; his son, Horace-Émile Say (1794–1860), Léon Say's father, was educated at Geneva, before travelling in America.
Say, Jean-Baptiste (1821). Letters to Mr. Malthus. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones. This is an English translation of Say's Lettres à M. Malthus sur l'économie politique et la stagnation du commerce, published in 1820. Say, Jean-Baptiste (1834). A Treatise on Political Economy (sixth American ed.). Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott.
Its main thinkers are held to be Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, and John Stuart Mill. These economists produced a theory of market economies as largely self-regulating systems, governed by natural laws of production and exchange (famously captured by Adam Smith's metaphor of the invisible hand).
Traité d'économie politique, 1803.. A Treatise on Political Economy; or The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth (in English), known as Traité d'économie politique in French, is an industrial economics book written by Jean-Baptiste Say.
Say was born on 6 March 1774 in Lyon, France. [1] [2] [3] His father, Jean-Etienne Say, was a Swiss-born silk trader. [4]His mother was Françoise Brun de Castanet. [3] He had a brother, Jean-Baptiste Say, who later became a classical liberal economist.
Jean-Baptiste (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist] ⓘ) is a male French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following:
The collège-lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say is a French public school built in 1895, operating as a collège and lycée as well as offering preparatory classes. It is located at 11 bis, rue d'Auteuil in Paris, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and bears the name of French classical economist Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832).