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Quotation from A Treatise on Political Economy by Jean-Baptiste Say
“the encouragement of mere consumption is no benefit to commerce; for the difficulty lies in supplying the means, not in stimulating the desire of consumption”
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
One of the practical corollaries Say draws from the law of markets: prosperity comes from enabling production, not from urging people to spend.
Citation: "the encouragement of mere consumption is no benefit to commerce; for the difficulty lies in supplying the means, not in stimulating the desire of consumption" — 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-q4)
