'This was a enjoyable book both for its scholarship and because of the deep interest raised in the issues surveyed. It provides a depth of understanding on questions that are normally of peripheral interest to an economist.' - History of Economics Review, Steven Kates

• PART I Introduction; A Brief Biography of Jean-Batiste Say; Jean-Baptiste Say and The Institutions of Ideologie PART II Towards a Psychology of Rational Individuals; The Science of Life in the Eighteenth Century; Physiology, Order and Chaos PART III Untilitarianism and the Body Politick; The Role of the Administrators, Legislators and Educators; On Domestic Virtue and Social Class PART IV Ideologie and The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say; Rational Mechanics and Physiology as Metaphor in Jean-Baptiste Say's Social Economics; Towards an Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say TRANSLATIONS Introduction: The Public Morality Contest of Year VIII; 'Address to Potential Contestants' P-L Roederer (15 Vendemiaire VI); 'Olbie, or an essay on the means of reforming the morals of a nation' Jean-Baptiste Say (Year VIII);'If I were to rewrite my Olbie...' Jean-Baptiste Say (1826?) Notes Bibliography