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Quotation from A Treatise on Political Economy by Jean-Baptiste Say
“Political economy, in the same manner as the exact sciences, is composed of a few fundamental principles, and of a great number of corollaries or conclusions, drawn from these principles.”
A Treatise on Political Economy, Introduction, trans. C. R. Prinsep (1821), American edition ed. C. C. Biddle
From Say's Introduction, where he presents economics as a science of general facts derived from observation, rather than a collection of statistics or a branch of statecraft.
Citation: "Political economy, in the same manner as the exact sciences, is composed of a few fundamental principles, and of a great number of corollaries or conclusions, drawn from these principles." — Jean-Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy, Introduction, trans. C. R. Prinsep (1821), American edition ed. C. C. Biddle. (id say-treatise-on-political-economy-q1)
