Note 216-2 — Chapter I

Say's celebrated Théorie des Débouchés, called by McCulloch his chief merit, Traité, I, ch. 15. At about the same time the same theory was developed by J. Mill, Commerce defended, 1808. Ricardo's express adhesion, Principles, ch. 21. Important germs of the theory may be traced much farther back: Mélon, Essai politique sur le Commerce, 1734, ch. 2; Tucker, On the Naturalization Bill, 13; Sketch of the Advance and Decline of Nations, 1795, 182.