Richard Cantillon's Essay on the Nature of Trade in General: A Variorum Edition

ISBN-13: 9780367668815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 514 str.

Richard Cantillon; Richard Van Den Berg

Opis

 The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20.　 The work remained unpublished for about two decades, but when it appeared posthumously in Paris in 1755 the book was immediately r

Spis treści

Preface 1 Introduction 2 Historical backgrounds to the texts 2.1 The French versions 2.1.1 The print editions 2.1.2 The French manuscript versions 2.1.3 Variations between the French versions 2.2 The English versions 2.2.1 The Fragments in Postlethwayt’s Universal Dictionary 2.2.2 Philip Cantillon’s Analysis 3 The Higgs translation 4 The uses of this edition Presentation of the texts

O autorze

Richard van den Berg is Associate Professor of Accounting, Finance and Informatics at Kingston University, UK.