“Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.”

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book I, On Production, Chapter III, p. 73

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French economist and businessman 1767–1832

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