Philosophie et économie politique chez J.-B. Say - Remarques sur les rapports entre un texte oublié de J.-B. Say et son œuvre économique

[fre] Abstract Before he was the author of the famous Traité d'économie politique of 1803. J.-B. Say was one of the Décade philosophique, the publication of the Idéologues. So was he one of those people which tried, after Thermidor, to consolidate the ideals of the Revolution. This purpose leads him to write, in 1799, an Utopia : « Olbie ou essai sur les moyens de réformer les mœurs d'un peuple. This work is to-day rather forgotten. Carrying through a point of view which was rather new in France. Say tried to think a free and harmonious society by working up the principles of political economy. So appears Olbie as a philosophical founding writing of the coming economic work of Say - a work which needs so to be readed again. [eng] Abstract Before he was the author of the famous Traité d'économie politique of 1803. J.-B. Say was one of the Décade philosophique, the publication of the Idéologues. So was he one of those people which tried, after Thermidor, to consolidate the ideals of the Revolution. This purpose leads him to write, in 1799, an Utopia : « Olbie ou essai sur les moyens de réformer les mœurs d'un peuple. This work is to-day rather forgotten. Carrying through a point of view which was rather new in France. Say tried to think a free and harmonious society by working up the principles of political economy. So appears Olbie as a philosophical founding writing of the coming economic work of Say - a work which needs so to be readed again.