Dutch nineteenth-century economics was more modern than conventional scholarship has suggested. In a number of studies of individual economists and of the formal aspects of academia, it has been concluded that at least before 1870 there were no original contributions by Dutch economists and...

This article aims at solving one of the puzzles of Say’s value theory – was it Smithian or utilitarian? – and discussing another one: was Say as a utilitarian following a French tradition or was he – as he pretended to be – a Benthamite? In the first (1803) edition of the Traité...