Isaac Gervaise

Gervaise wrote a prototypical examination of monetary theory in 1720

Isaac Gervaise (born ca. 1680 in Paris, died 1739) was an English merchant and economist.

Gervaise was of a Huguenot 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] [3]}

References

1. Issac Gervaise; John M. Letiche (1954). System or theory of the trade of the world. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. pp.  18–27.
2. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1994). History of economic analysis. Routledge. p. 346. ISBN   978-0-415-10888-1.
3. Schumpeter's discussion of Gervaise in the 1994 Oxford Univ. Press Edition ( ISBN   978-0-19-510559-9) occurs on p.365-66.