Isaac Gervaise

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

Gervaise wrote a prototypical examination of monetary theory in 1720

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]