The Two Faces of Jean-Baptiste Say...

Say I (1803): A Treatise on Political Economy:

Say: A Treatise on Political Economy, Book I, Chapter XV: [T:]o say that sales are dull, owing to the scarcity of money, is to mistake the means for the cause; an error that proceeds from the circumstance, that almost all produce is in the first instance exchanged for money, before it is ultimately converted into other produce: and the commodity, which recurs so repeatedly in use, appears to vulgar apprehensions the most important of...