Money and Banking in Jean-Baptiste Say}}}s Economic Thought [Paperback]

The aim of this work is to make available to English-language readers a translation of Jean-Baptiste Says main texts on money and banking which were not at present accessible in English. The work includes chapters from his bookstaking into account the variants between the different editions, articles and hitherto unpublished manuscripts. Comprehension of these different texts is facilitated by an introduction designed to place them in their context and by a chronological table giving the main events of Says life and editorial activity in parallel with the main political, economic and monetary events of the time.

1. Introduction Gilles Jacoud  PART I: Extracts from the Catechism of Political Economy Jean-Baptiste Say 2. Of money  3. Of the representative signs of money  PART II: Of monies. Extracts from the Complete Course in Practical Political Economy  Jean-Baptiste Say  4. Of the nature and uses of money  5. Of the material of money  6. Of the foundation of the value of monies  7. Why the value of silver did not decrease more following the discovery of America  8. Of the relative value of different metals used as money  9. Of the manufacture of metallic monies  10. Of the profit it is possible to make from the manufacture of coinage  11. Of the attempts which have been made to have a measure of values  12. Of the value of precious metals compared with that of wheat, from ancient times  13. Evaluation of historical amounts  14. Of paper monies  PART III: Of the representative signs of money. Extracts from the Complete Course in Practical Political Economy  Jean-Baptiste Say&ló#