Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes


Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position.


Citations

Say, Jean-Baptiste. A Treatise on Political Economy. Translated by C. R. Prinsep, Grigg & Elliot, 1836.

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Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say
  • Born: January 5, 1767
  • Died: November 15, 1832
  • Nationality: French
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Jean-Baptiste Say was a liberal French economist and businessman who argued in favor of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business. He is best known for Say's law—also known as the law of markets—which he popularized. Scholars disagree on the surprisingly subtle question of whether it was Say who first stated what is now called Say's law. Moreover, he was one of the first economists to study entrepreneurship and conceptualized entrepreneurs as organizers and leaders of the economy.