[659]. See Tract on Value, p. 18.
[660]. Quarterly, April 1823, p. 230.
[661]. Econ. Pol., Part III. ch. ii., 2nd ed., 1842; 1st ed., 1802.
[662]. “Products” is Say’s word, however.
[663]. Elements (1821), ch. iv. sect. iii. pp. 186 seq. “That consumption is coextensive with production.” Mill taught this as early as 1808 in his tract (against Spence) Commerce defended.
[664]. Lettres à M. Malthus sur différents sujets d’écon. pol., notamment sur les causes de la stagnation générale du commerce (1820), pp. 26 seq.
[665]. Pol. Econ. (1820), p. 355, (1836) p. 316. Against Say’s general position see Definitions, p. 56 n.
[666]. Wealth of Nations, I. iii.
[667]. See above, p. 232. A curious footnote in Essay on Pop., 3rd ed., vol. ii. p. 264, suggested that there might be over-production in the case of high farming when its cost made the farmers charge more than the public could bear. But this note disappeared afterwards.
[668]. Ricardo, Pol. Econ. and Taxation, ch. xxi. p. 176 (MacCull.’s ed.). Mill (Elements, pp. 193 ft., 194) is more rigid.