Jean-Baptiste Say Quote

Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.


Book I, On Production, Chapter XXI, Section VI, p. 244 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832)


Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the...

Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the...

Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the...

Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the...