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

ISBN-13: 9780415203081 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 311 str.

Evelyn L. Forget

Opis

Jean-Baptiste Say was one of the most influential and colourful figures of classical economics. This book uses archival and published sources to place Say in context, at the confluence of several major currents in social philosophy.

Recenzje

'This was a enjoyable book both for its scholarship and because of the deep interest raised in the issues surveyed. It provides a depth of understanding on questions that are normally of peripheral interest to an economist.' - History of Economics Review, Steven Kates

Spis treści

PART I Introduction; A Brief Biography of Jean-Batiste Say; Jean-Baptiste Say and The Institutions of Ideologie PART II Towards a Psychology of Rational Individuals; The Science of Life in the Eighteenth Century; Physiology, Order and Chaos PART III Untilitarianism and the Body Politick; The Role of the Administrators, Legislators and Educators; On Domestic Virtue and Social Class PART IV Ideologie and The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say; Rational Mechanics and Physiology as Metaphor in Jean-Baptiste Say's Social Economics; Towards an Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say TRANSLATIONS Introduction: The Public Morality Contest of Year VIII; 'Address to Potential Contestants' P-L Roederer (15 Vendemiaire VI); 'Olbie, or an essay on the means of reforming the morals of a nation' Jean-Baptiste Say (Year VIII);'If I were to rewrite my Olbie...' Jean-Baptiste Say (1826?) Notes Bibliography

O autorze

Evelyn L. Forget