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J-B. Say and the Political Economy of his Time: A Quantitative Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Philippe Steiner
Affiliation:
Université Paris IX, & ENS Fontenay Saint Cloud, 31, av. Lombart, 92260Fontenay aux Roses, France.

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Some years ago, George J. Stigler reminded the community of historians of economic thought that a great thinker of the last century, Adolphe Quetelet, had made a real methodological breakthrough in the social sciences by opening the door to quantification. Stigler himself tried to implement this method in the history of economic thought.

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