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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. In 1720 he published The System or Theory of the Trade of the World, one of the first treatises on political economy.

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.

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