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= "Say's best-known work, his Traité d'économique politique (...) was intended as a shorter and more systematic presentation of economics than Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. The success of this book made Say the best-known expositor of Smith in Europe and America, and he became in 1815 France's first professor of political economy. (...) The Traité d'économie politique also went beyond Smith in developing what Say called 'one of the most important truths of political economy' - that supply creates its own demand, the doctrine ultimately named Say's Law (...)". (Palgrave IV, p.249).