Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique. Ouvrage posthume. Publié par Charles Comte, son gendre, etc., etc.
by Say, Jean Baptiste; Francois Charles Louis Comte
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Paris, Chamerot, 1833. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. xxviii, 472. Footnotes, index. HARDCOVER, bound in green full cloth, gilt lettering-piece to spine (bit chipped); cloth discoloured, small stain at bottom of cover, corner-tips bumped, one worn, few pencil annotations, old signature to first blank. Good copy, very good interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Jean Baptiste Say (1767-1832), French economist. Was appointed to a post in Napoleon's government in 1799, later was a professor of political economy at the Collège de France. Say edited the journal "La Décade", in which he wrote many articles promoting the ideas of Adam Smith. Say's Law, the law of markets, whereby supply creates its own demand for goods, went unchallenged for a long time. His extensive writings include his first major book, "Traité d'économie politique" (1803; English translation 1821); "Catéchisme d'économie politique" (1815); and "Course complet d'économie politique pratique" (1828). Francois Charles Louis Comte (1782-1837), co-authored also T. R. Malthus's "Essai sur le principe de population". [Provenance:] from the library of Dr. W. Neurath, with his calligraphed signature to first free endpaper. F-5 IN
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- Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique. Ouvrage posthume. Publié par Charles Comte, son gendre, etc., etc.
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- Say, Jean Baptiste; Francois Charles Louis Comte
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- Paris, Chamerot
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- 1833
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