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SAY, Jean Baptiste (1767-1832). Traité d'économie politique, ou simple exposition de la manière dont se forment, se distribuent, et se consomment les richesses. Paris: Crapelet, 1803. 2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles (first 2 leaves and from Y1 to the end of vol.I lightly waterstained at top margin). Modern roan-backed marbled boards, uncut.
FIRST EDITION of Say's magnum opus, not published again until Napoleon's first fall in 1814, owing to the latter's hostility to Say for having shown, in 1804, his unwillingness to sacrifice his convictions for the purpose of furthering Napoleon's designs. The work eventually went through thirty-two editions and was, with Smith's Wealth of Nations (whose doctrine Say expounded from an early age), the most popular work on economics in the first half of the 19th century. Say ranks with Sismondi and Cournot in the originality of his contributions to economic theory and Schumpeter calls his work 'the most important of the links in the chain that leads from Cantillon and Turgot to Walras'. Carpenter XXXII; Einaudi 5118; Goldsmiths' 18616; Kress B.4729. (2)
FIRST EDITION of Say's magnum opus, not published again until Napoleon's first fall in 1814, owing to the latter's hostility to Say for having shown, in 1804, his unwillingness to sacrifice his convictions for the purpose of furthering Napoleon's designs. The work eventually went through thirty-two editions and was, with Smith's Wealth of Nations (whose doctrine Say expounded from an early age), the most popular work on economics in the first half of the 19th century. Say ranks with Sismondi and Cournot in the originality of his contributions to economic theory and Schumpeter calls his work 'the most important of the links in the chain that leads from Cantillon and Turgot to Walras'. Carpenter XXXII; Einaudi 5118; Goldsmiths' 18616; Kress B.4729. (2)
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