Jean-Baptiste Say et l'entrepreneur: la question de la filiation avec Cantillon et Turgot

Joël Thomas Ravix

Innovations, 2014, vol. n° 45, issue 3, 59-76

Abstract: Since Schumpeter, there has been a tradition in the history of the economic thought that has placed Say?s entrepreneur in a filiation Cantillon-Turgot. The aim of this article is to show that this filiation does not exist, even if certain themes such as risk, knowledge or organization of production appear in the works of these three authors. More precisely, it is possible to find a double break between Say and his predecessors. The first one lies in the analysis of the production and the division of labor, which shows that the entrepreneur in Say?s writings has not the same role as in Turgot?s ones. The second one concerns their conceptions of uncertainty and profit, which shows that the place of the entrepreneur in the distribution of income in the writings of Say is not the same that in Cantillon or Turgot?s ones. The implications of this double break are specified in the conclusion. JEL Codes : B12, B13, L26

Keywords: entrepreneur; Say; filiation Cantillon-Turgot; production; uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B12 B13 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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