Introduction / Gilles Jacoud -- Extracts from the Catechism of political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say -- Of money -- Of the representative signs of money -- Of monies : extracts from the complete course in practical political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say -- Of the nature and uses of money -- Of the material of money -- Of the foundation of the value of monies -- Why the value of silver did not decrease more following the discovery of America -- Of the relative value of different metals used as money -- Of the manufacture of metallic monies -- Of the profit it is possible to make from the manufacture of coinage -- Of the attempts which have been made to have a measure of values -- Of the value of precious metals compared with that of wheat, from ancient times -- Evaluation of historical amounts -- Of paper monies -- Of the representative signs of money : extracts from the complete course in practical political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say -- General characteristics of representative signs -- Of trust notes and banks of circulation -- Abuse of banks of circulation -- Of deposit banks and party transfers -- Of promissory notes, bills of exchange and foreign exchange -- Extracts from a Treatise on Political Economy / Jean-Baptiste Say -- Extracts from editions 1, 2 and 3 of a Treatise on political economy -- Extracts from editions 5 and 6 of a Treatise on political economy -- Manuscripts, notes and varied texts / Jean-Baptiste Say -- Tribunat : report made on behalf of the finance section on the projected law concerning the recoinage of monies -- Notes on Henri Storch's Cours d'économie politique -- Of the commercial crisis in England -- Extracts from correspondence -- Plan for a new money in Ricardo's style -- Of deposit banks and party transfers -- Of the debasement of monies -- Chronological table / Gilles Jacoud.