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education for primary schools. The textbook covers chemistry, physics and
basic technology. It is rather appealing that it is published by Hachette, even
today the leading French publisher of school and university textbooks.
Specialist technical education in France had grown out of the Écoles des
Mines and the École des Arts et Metiers, but only at the beginning of the nineteenth
century industrial advances changed the system more fundamentally.
Following the suggestions of Dupin, who had travelled in England and
made numerous proposals on the reform of technical education, a major
reform was instituted in 1827, when combined practical and theoretical
education was proposed. This included physics and chemistry. The revolution
of 1830 slowed down development again, and it was not until the late
1830s that industrial education was fully included in basic training and not
reserved for specialist schools.
Uncommon, not found in OCLC.
Say’s Utopia – The Knowledge-based Society
105 SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Olbie, ou Essai sur les Moyens de
Réformer les Moeurs d’une Nation. Paris, Deterville, An VIII
[1799/1800]. £3200
8vo, pp. xi, [1], 132; entirely uncut in the original blue wrappers, foot
of spine strengthened; a Wne copy.
First edition of Say’s rare utopia – his second book, containing the beginnings
of his economic thought. In Olbie (from olbios [Greek], meaning happy
and prosperous) Say outlines the social objectives of political economy.
‘Say’s principal means to reform behaviour was a widespread acquisition of
skills through nationally organized mass education which would raise the
living standards of the poor. At the same time, the luxury consumption of the
wealthy reduced overall incomes and employment. They should save and use
their surplus incomes to Wnance investment in the infrastructure. A reduction
in economically damaging inequalities would be assisted by a geometrically
progressive income tax, where the state took ‘a tenth of the increase above the
last contribution’. Say maintained that social problems and anti-social behaviour
would virtually cease with improved education, reduced inequality and
a complete understanding of the full interactions of the economy where each
class contributed to the wealth of others (see Eltis, p. 457).
‘Having established that a good treatise on economic theory should be
the major moral book for society, the author naturally looked to provide
such a work for his country; Olbie anticipates the publication of the Traité
d’Economie politique which was to appear four years later and thus forms
part of the history of the science’ (Guillaumin, Avertissement des editeurs in
Oeuvres diverses, 1848).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 17874.24; INED 4109; Mattioli 3235; Monglond V, 108;
Negley 1002; not in Einaudi; see Walter Eltis’ review article ‘The Social Economics
of Jean-Baptiste Say: Markets and Virtue by Evelyn L. Forget’, in Economica, New
Series, volume 68, no. 271, pp. 457–458.
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