Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes About Economy

• Todos los que, desde Adam Smith, han prestado atención a la Economía Política, están de acuerdo en que, en realidad, no compramos artículos de consumo con dinero, el medio circulante con el que los pagamos. En primer lugar, debemos haber comprado este dinero mediante la venta de nuestros productos.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Sabiduría, Realidad, Política

  Jean Baptiste Say (1936). "Cartas a Thomas Robert Malthus sobre la economía política y el estancamiento del comercio", p.6, Lulu.com

• To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To all those through whose hands this silver afterwards passes, it is only the price of the produce which they themselves have raised by means of their property in land, their capitals, or their industry. In selling them they in the first place exchange them for money, and afterwards they exchange the money for articles of consumption.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Mean, Hands, Land

  Jean Baptiste Say (1936). "Cartas a Thomas Robert Malthus sobre la economía política y el estancamiento del comercio", p.6, Lulu.com

• To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Men, Errors, Analysis

• Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Political, Economy, Guides

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.188

• Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Mean, Circles, Political

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.191

• Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Political, Economy, Investigation

  Jean Baptiste Say (1834). “A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.38

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