An economist in troubled times : writings / selected and translated by R.R. Palmer.

Author: Say, Jean Baptiste, 1767-1832.

Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.

Descriptionviii, 167 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:Freedom of Speech. - Journalism. - Benjamin Franklin. - Bureaucracy. - The Theater. - The Constitution of 1795. - Promoting the Arts and Trades. - A Moral Society. - Plain Living and Comfort. - The Need for Political Economy. - Monuments and Aphorisms. - The French in Egypt. - Offending Napoleon. - Political Economy as a Science. - Everybody's Business. - Elementary Schools for All. - Extravagance and Deprivation. - The Profits and Evils of Slavery. - Utility and Value. - Goods and Services. - The Entrepreneur. - Say's Law. - Population. - Say in Business for Himself. - Emigration? Thomas Jefferson. - British Wealth and Credit. - Taxes, Debt, Deficit, and Poverty. - Machinery and Steam Engines. - Paper Money: The Bank of England. - India and the East India Company. - Ireland and Its Future. - Assisted Emigration. - The University of London. - The Professor of Political Economy. - Economics for Entrepreneurs. - Critique of Contemporaries. - The Canal Age. - Liberia. - The Uses of Statistics. - Economics and the Fate of Nations. - The Chair at the College of France.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.

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