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- 1. (1870–1942), French physical chemist. He provided the definitive proof of the existence of atoms, proved that cathode rays are negatively charged, and investigated Brownian motion. Nobel Prize for Physics (1926).
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Apr 5, 2024 · Subjects Of Study: political economy. supply and demand. J.-B. Say (born January 5, 1767, Lyon, France—died November 15, 1832, Paris) was a French economist, best known for his law of markets, which postulates that supply creates its own demand.
F rench economist J. B. Say is most commonly identified with Say’s Law, which states that supply creates its own demand. Over the years Say’s Law has been embroiled in two kinds of controversy—the first over its authorship, the second over what it means and, given each meaning, whether it is true.
Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 – November 15, 1832) was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favor of competition, free trade, and lifting restraints on business. His most significant contribution is the thesis, known as "Say's Law," that supply creates its own demand.
Feb 5, 2018 · Jean-Baptiste Say was born in Lyons on January 5, 1767 and died in Paris on November 15, 1832. Say was the leading French political economist in the first third of the 19th century. Before becoming an academic political economist quite late in life, Say had worked at a broad range of occupations including an ap...
May 29, 2018 · The French economist Jean Baptiste Say (1767-1832), one of the founders of the classical school, is best known for his law of markets. He was the first academic teacher of economics in France. Jean Baptiste Say was born on Jan. 5, 1767, in Lyons of a Protestant merchant family.
Jean-Baptiste Say ( French: [ ʒɑ̃batist sɛ]; 5 January 1767 – 15 November 1832) 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.
Jean-Baptiste Say and Political Economy* Loïc Charles1. This book offers translations from French of no less than eleven texts of Jean-Baptiste Say, none of them previously available in English. Say, one of the most important economists of the early nineteenth century alongside Robert Malthus, David Ricardo and Jean-Charles Sismonde de Sismondi.
