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Isaac Gervaise

Isaac Gervaise

English merchant and economist

Isaac Gervaise (born ca. 1680 in Paris, died 1739) was an English merchant and economist.

Gervaise wrote a prototypical examination of monetary theory in 1720

Gervaise was of a Huguenot family which fled to England in 1681. He was granted naturalization in 1698, and in 1699 became Elder and Secretary of Consistoire in Church of Leicester Fields.[1] In 1720 he published The System or Theory of the Trade of the World, one of the first treatises on political economy.[2][3]

References

  1. [1]
    Issac Gervaise; John M. Letiche (1954). System or theory of the trade of the world. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 18–27.
  2. [2]
    Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1994). History of economic analysis. Routledge. p. 346. ISBN 978-0-415-10888-1.
  3. [3]
    Schumpeter's discussion of Gervaise in the 1994 Oxford Univ. Press Edition (ISBN 978-0-19-510559-9) occurs on p.365-66.


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