Isaac Gervaise
Isaac Gervaise (born ca. 1680 in Paris, died 1739) was an English merchant and economist.
Gervaise was of a Hugenot 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]
References[]
- ^ Issac Gervaise; John M. Letiche (1954). System or theory of the trade of the world. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 18–27.
- ^ Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1994). History of economic analysis. Routledge. p. 346. ISBN 978-0-415-10888-1.
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- 1680s births
- 1739 deaths
- English economists
- English Presbyterians
- 17th-century English businesspeople
- 18th-century English people
- People from Paris
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