Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics : the British connection in French classicism

Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics the British connection in French classicism

"This book explores the commonly-perceived paradigmatic conflict between the 'Ricardo School' and the contemporary French economics of Jean-Baptiste Say. It will interest all serious historians of economic thought and will find a place on the bookshelves of many economists across the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hollander, Samuel, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Taylor & Francis 2005.
Series:Routledge studies in the history of economics.
Subjects:
Economics > History > 19th century > Great Britain.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745248206719
Table of Contents:
  • Preface xi
  • 1 Introduction 1 (24)
  • The classical canon
  • 1 (14)
  • The Ricardo-Say relation: a review of the literature
  • Plan of work
  • 23 (2)
  • 2 Value, distribution and growth before 1823 25 (61)
  • Say's cost price analysis 1803
  • 25 (1)
  • Cost-price analysis 1814-17
  • 26 (4)
  • The Notes (1819) on Ricardo's Principles: cost price
  • 30 (16)
  • The Notes (1819) on Ricardo's Principles: rent
  • 46 (9)
  • Modifications to the Traite 1819
  • 55 (9)
  • A further modification: the falling rate of interest and the inverse profit-wage relation
  • 64 (3)
  • The 'subsistence' wage and population size
  • 67 (3)
  • The utility dimension
  • 70 (5)
  • The Say-Ricardo correspondence 1820-2: approaching accord on value theory
  • 75 (11)
  • 3 Value, distribution and growth after 1823 86 (58)
  • Cost price analysis
  • 86 (11)
  • Pricing and 'utility'
  • 97 (9)
  • Service-supply conditions
  • 106 (13)
  • The earnings structure
  • 119 (3)
  • Land-based limits to growth, the falling wage path and the stationary state
  • 122 (6)
  • The falling rate of interest
  • 128 (1)
  • Summary: Say's representation of Ricardo
  • 129 (15)
  • 4 On 'riches': real income and its measurement 144 (45)
  • Introduction
  • 144 (1)
  • The early Say-Ricardo exchange 1815
  • 145 (1)
  • Riches' as real-income flow: the case elaborated
  • 146 (10)
  • The late Say-Ricardo exchange 1821-2
  • 156 (2)
  • Post-1823 statements
  • 158 (7)
  • Malthus on Say and 'riches'
  • 165 (5)
  • Capital accumulation: productive and unproductive consumption
  • 170 (7)
  • On surplus: gross and net revenue
  • 177 (2)
  • Taxation and economic activity
  • 179 (5)
  • The gains from trade
  • 184 (1)
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 185 (4)
  • 5 The Law of Markets 189 (37)
  • Introduction
  • 189 (1)
  • Say's first statement, 1803
  • 189 (5)
  • The evolution of Say's position: general excess supply and the problem of 'counter-commodities'
  • 194 (9)
  • The interpretation of contemporary depression
  • 203 (9)
  • 'Limits to production': the Law of Markets recanted?
  • 212 (2)
  • The Law of Markets and Say's entrepreneur
  • 214 (5)
  • Questions of priority: Say and James Mill
  • 219 (3)
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 222 (4)
  • 6 Say and the classical canon: an overview 226 (36)
  • John Stuart Mill's conciliatory position
  • 226 (1)
  • Methodology
  • 227 (23)
  • Doctrine
  • 250 (4)
  • Say and the canonical growth model
  • 254 (4)
  • Internal paradigmatic conflicts
  • 258 (4)
  • 7 Conclusion 262 (23)
  • The impression of systemic discord
  • 262 (4)
  • Say's increasing hostility
  • 266 (10)
  • An hypothesis
  • 276 (9)
  • Appendix I Say's Notes on Ricardo's Principles 285 (2)
  • Appendix II On Say's charges against McCulloch of plagiarism 287 (2)
  • Appendix III McCulloch's review of Say 1821 [1819a] 289 (4)
  • Notes 293 (18)
  • Bibliography 311 (7)
  • Index 318.

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