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Titre Horace Say et le Brésil
Auteur Guy Martinière
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers d'économie politique
Numéro no 27-28, automne 1996-printemps 1997 Le libéralisme à l'épreuve : de l'empire aux nations. (Adam Smith et l'économie coloniale)
Page 211-239
Résumé anglais Between his father, Jean-Baptiste Say, a brilliant theorist of economic liberalism, and his uncle, Louis Say, the founder of famous sugar houses, Horace Say (1794-1860), liked to present himself as both a practical man and a technician of economy. He was able to carefully analyze the trade relations between Brazil and France in a work published in 1839, thanks to a long experience in the field, at a time when the old Portuguese colony was becoming a young indépendant State. How could his observations on the expansion of international trade be the matter of a real liberal programme of economic development of the Empire ? What were his commitments, his Utopian views, his limits ? At the time
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