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Jean-Baptiste Say

1767 - 1832

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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, although scholars disagree as to whether it was Say who first articulated the theory. Moreover, he was one of the first economists to study entrepreneurship and conceptualized entrepreneurs as organizers and leaders of the economy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Say has received more than 549,723 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Say is the 19th most popular economist (down from 16th in 2019), the 407th most popular biography from France (down from 334th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Economist.

Jean-Baptiste Say is most famous for his law of markets, which states that supply creates its own demand.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Jean-Baptiste Say ranks 19 out of 414. Before him are François Quesnay, Ludwig von Mises, Klaus Schwab, John Law, Gunnar Myrdal, and Paul Samuelson. After him are Mario Draghi, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Alexander Hamilton, Jacques Delors, and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, Jean-Baptiste Say ranks 6. Before him are Andrew Jackson, Joachim Murat, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, and John Quincy Adams. After him are John VI of Portugal, Benjamin Constant, Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Nicolas Oudinot, and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. Among people deceased in 1832, Jean-Baptiste Say ranks 9. Before him are Jean-François Champollion, Évariste Galois, Walter Scott, Jeremy Bentham, Georges Cuvier, and Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot. After him are Muzio Clementi, Rasmus Rask, Friedrich Kuhlau, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Say ranks 407 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaspard Monge (1746), Robert I of France (860), Pierre Bayle (1647), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), Jean Lannes (1769), and Paul Ricœur (1913). After him are Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Marcel Marceau (1923), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), André Masséna (1758), and Jean Fouquet (1420).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Jean-Baptiste Say ranks 4. Before him are Vilfredo Pareto (1848), Frédéric Passy (1822), and François Quesnay (1694). After him are Jacques Delors (1925), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Léon Walras (1834), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Maurice Allais (1911), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), and Gérard Debreu (1921).

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