PRESENTATION COPY OF A RARE UTOPIA SAY, Jean-Baptiste.

Olbie, ou Essai sur les moyens de réformer les moeurs d’une nation.

Rare first edition of Say’s utopia, our copy presented to a politician from Calvados, written in response to a competition organised by the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques on the question: ‘Which institutions are capable of establishing morality among a people?’. Say treats the question from an economic viewpoint, and this work can, in some ways, be seen as a preface to his Traité d’économie politique of 1803.