Readership: Historians of political thought and political economy; economists interested in the history of economic theory; politics and international relations scholars interested in the development of ideas about liberty and democracy.
Richard Whatmore, Lecturer in Intellectual History, University of Sussex
"Whatmore advances his clear and closely argued interpretation of Say through a most impressive range of textual evidence ... This accomplished book will prove challenging and instructive to an extremely wide circle of historians of ideas." - History of European Ideas
"An important contribution to a much bigger field ... this takes us into the entire background of French Revolutionary republicanism." - Times Literary Supplement
Part I. Reinterpreting Say 1: The J.-B. Say problem 2: Republicanism and political economy Part II The Intellectual Context of Say's Ideas 3: The political economy of French decline 4: The republican turn in France, 1776-1789 5: Revolution and the political economy of Terror Part III Republican Political Economy 6: Say's republicanism, 1794-1798 7: The idea of a Traité d'économie politique 8: Defending republican manners 9: Restoring French glory Part IV Republican Political Economy in Conditions of Monarchy 10: Rejecting the post-war settlement 11: 'Social science in its entirety' 12: Conclusion
