> Thank you, but be so kind as to supply a citation to Ott, or some
> commentator.  Also to the Swedes you reference.

All references, and a reconstruction and contextualization of Ott's argument, can be found in a paper I wrote with Giorgio Colacchio, “Auguste Ott on Commercial Crises and Distributive Justice: An Early Input-Output Scheme”, Review of Political Economy 22:1, January 2010, pp. 75-96, and in "Expectations and crises in Auguste Ott’s Dictionnaire des sciences politiques et sociales (1854)", Ch. 10 of Crises and cycles in economic dictionaries and encyclopedias, edited by myself, London: Routledge, pp. 238-248

Daniele Besomi


> 
> Preferably send citations in English.  I can also handle French, struggle
> through German, but not Swedish.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Mason
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> mason gaffney asks:
> 
>> In all this discussion of Say’s Law, something missing is the role of
> anticipations.  I write not to argue any point, but to ask of the group if
> anyone else has?
> 
> Auguste Ott, 1854. He started from questioning Say's law, but his
> constructive theory is based on the disappointment of expectations, very
> much anticipating the Swede's argument some 70 years later.
> 
> Daniele Besomi