Money and Banking in Jean-Baptiste Say's Economic Thought

ISBN-13: 9781138903630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 18 str.

Gilles Jacoud

Opis

The aim of this work is to make available to English-language readers a translation of Jean-Baptiste Say s main texts on money and banking which were not at present accessible in English. The work includes chapters from his books taking into account the variants between the different editions, articles and hitherto unpublished manuscripts. Comprehension of these different texts is facilitated by an introduction designed to place them in their context and by a chronological table giving the main events of Say s life and editorial activity in parallel with the main political, economic and monetary events of the time."

Recenzje

"The contributions made by Say to the development of the theory of money and banking merit study and criticism. Jacoud's collection makes Say's ideas accessible to a much greater readership." - Alain Beraud, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2013

Spis treści

1. Introduction Gilles Jacoud  PART I: Extracts from the Catechism of Political Economy Jean-Baptiste Say 2. Of money  3. Of the representative signs of money  PART II: Of monies. Extracts from the Complete Course in Practical Political Economy  Jean-Baptiste Say  4. Of the nature and uses of money  5. Of the material of money  6. Of the foundation of the value of monies  7. Why the value of silver did not decrease more following the discovery of America  8. Of the relative value of different metals used as money  9. Of the manufacture of metallic monies  10. Of the profit it is possible to make from the manufacture of coinage  11. Of the attempts which have been made to have a measure of values  12. Of the value of precious metals compared with that of wheat, from ancient times  13. Evaluation of historical amounts  14. Of paper monies  PART III: Of the representative signs of money. Extracts from the Complete Course in Practical Political Economy  Jean-Baptiste Say  15. General characteristics of representative signs  16. Of trust notes and banks of circulation  17. Abuse of banks of circulation  18. Of deposit banks and party transfers  19. Of promissory notes, bills of exchange and foreign exchange  PART IV: Extracts from A Treatise on Political Economy Jean-Baptiste Say  20. Extracts from editions 1, 2 and 3 of A Treatise on Political Economy  21. Extracts from editions 5 and 6 of A Treatise on Political Economy  PART V  Manuscripts, notes and varied texts Jean-Baptiste Say  22. Tribunat. Report made on behalf of the finance section on the projected law concerning the recoinage of monies. Session of 9 Germinal an XI  23. Monsieur Ferrier’s theory of money, capital par excellence  24. Notes on Henri Storch’s Cours d'économie politique  25. Of the commercial crisis in England  26. Extracts from correspondence  27. Plan for a new money in Ricardo’s style  28. Of deposit banks and party transfers  29. Of the debasement of monies  30. Chronological table Gilles Jacoud

O autorze

Gilles Jacoud is Professor of Economics and Manager of the Economics Department at University of Saint-Etienne, France