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Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successful entrepreneur-a remarkable Renaissance man
List of contents
Book I: Of The Production of Wealth.; I: Of What is to be Understood by the Term, Production.; II: Of The Different Kinds of Industry, and The Mode in which They Concur in Production.; III: Of The Nature of Capital, and the Mode in which it Concurs in the Business of Production.; IV: On Natural Agents that Assist in the Production of Wealth, and Specially of Land.; V: On the Mode in which Industry, Capital, and Natural Agents Unite in Production.; VI: Of Operations Alike Common to all Branches of Industry.; VII: Of the Labour of Mankind, of Nature, and of Machinery Respectively.; VIII: Of the Advantages and Disadvantages Resulting from Division of Labour, and of the Extent to which it may be Carried.; IX: Of the Different Methods of Employing Commercial Industry. And the Mode in which they Concur in Production.; X: Of the Transformations Undergone by Capital in the Progress of Production.; XI: Of the Formation and Multiplication of Capital.; XII: Of Unproductive Capital; XIII: Of Immaterial Products, or Values Consumed at the Moment of Production.; XIV: Of The Right of Property.; XV: Of The Demand or Market for Products.; XVI: Of The Benefits Resulting from The Quick Circulation of Money and Commodities.; XVII: Of the Effect of Government Regulations Intended to Influence Production.; XVIII: Of the Effect Upon National Wealth, Resulting from the Productive Efforts of Public Authority.; XIX: Of Colonies and their Products.; XX: Of Temporary and Permanent Emigration, Considered in Reference to National Wealth.; XXI: Of the Nature and Uses of Money.; XXII: Of Signs or Representatives of Money.; Book II: Of the Distribution of Wealth.; I: Of the Basis of Value; and of Supply and Demand.; II: The Sources of Revenue.; III: Of Real and Relative Variation of Price.; IV: Of Nominal Variation op Price, and op The Peculiar Value op Bullion and op Coin.; V: Of the Manner in which Revenue is Distributed Amongst Society.; VI: Of what Branches of Production Yield the most Liberal Recompense to Productive Agency.; VII: Of the Revenue of Industry.; VIII: Of the Revenue of Capital.; IX: Of the Revenue of Land.; X: Of the Effect of Revenue Derived by one Nation From Another.; XI: Of the Mode in which the Quantity of the Product Affects Population.; Book III: Of the Consumption of Wealth.; I: Of the Different Kinds of Consumption.; II: Of the Effect of Consumption in General.; III: Of the Effect of Productive Consumption.; IV: Of the Effect of Unproductive Consumption in General.; V: Of Individual Consumption—Its Motives and its Effects.; VI: On Public Consumption; VII: Of The Actual Conthibutors to Public Consumption.; VIII: Of Taxation.; IX: Of National Debt.
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Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successful entrepreneur-a remarkable Renaissance man
