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He devoted his leisure time to revising his economic treatise which had been out of print. The itp was an interruption in the preparation of the. He had classically liberal views and argued in favor of competition, free trade, and lifting restraints on business. He is best known for says law, also known as the law of markets, which he popularized. The politics of aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the ethics is the first part.
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Republicanism and the french revolution reassesses jeanbaptiste says political economy by locating the authors ideas amidst the intellectual upheavals of old regime and revolutionary france. An economic analysis of the protestant reformation. He might best be described as a protoaustromisesian, the author of the law of markets, known as say s law, and as the first to coin the term entrepreneur. The fifth edition, published in 1826, was the final one within say s lifetime.
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