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Quotation from A Treatise on Political Economy by Jean-Baptiste Say
“a product is no sooner created, than it, from that instant, affords a market for other products to the full extent of its own value.”
A Treatise on Political Economy, Book I, Chapter XV: Of the demand or market for products, trans. C. R. Prinsep (1821), American edition ed. C. C. Biddle
The central statement of the law of markets in Book I, Chapter XV: producing goods is what gives people the means to buy other goods.
Citation: "a product is no sooner created, than it, from that instant, affords a market for other products to the full extent of its own value." — Jean-Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy, Book I, Chapter XV: Of the demand or market for products, trans. C. R. Prinsep (1821), American edition ed. C. C. Biddle. (id say-treatise-on-political-economy-q2)
