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Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean-Baptiste Say (5 January 1767-15 November 1832) was a French scholar and financial expert. Say argued for competition, free trade, and the deregulation of business, and he was one of the major thinkers of classical liberalism.

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Jean-Baptiste Say was born in 1767 in Lyon, Kingdom of France, the son of a Protestant father. He became a journalist during the French Revolution, becoming one of the 100 members of the Tribunat assembly of the French Consulate in 1800. Say became a famous author, advocating competition, free trade, and business deregulation, and Emperor Aleksandr I of Russia professed that he was one of Say's pupils. In 1819, he founded ESCP Europe, the first business school in the world, and he became a political economy professor at the College de France in 1831. Say died in 1832 in Paris.

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