Richard Cantillon is one of the key figures in the early history of economics. He was certainly not the first to think about economic problems, but he was the first to have clear insight into the way the economy functions as a system. He was arguably the first to structure a theory of how the economy works. In this sense he could be called the first real economist. Today, his ideas on population, determination of prices, wages and interest, the role of the entrepreneur, banking, and the influence of money supply on the economy are increasingly quoted and appreciated. This is a translation of...
Richard Cantillon is one of the key figures in the early history of economics. He was certainly not the first to think about economic problems, but he...
LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com At last, and finally, here is the first accurate and beautiful translation of Richard Cantillon's 1755 masterpiece on economics. This treatise is widely credited with being the first to describe the market process as one driven by entrepreneurship. William Stanley Jevons, in the first blush of discovery, proclaimed Cantillon's Essai, "the cradle of political economy." A cradle holds new life; and there can be little doubt that the Essai added new life to the organizing principles of economics. But "political economy" does not accurately...
LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com At last, and finally, here is the first accurate and beautiful translation of Richard Cantillo...
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 The work remained unpublished for about two decades, but when it appeared posthumously in Paris in 1755 the book was immediately recognised as a brilliant genre-defining contribution to the then emerging intellectual discipline of political economy.
A degree of mystery has always surrounded the publication of the Essay. Cantillon died under mysterious circumstances in 1734, but the...
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 fort...
"Essai sur la nature du commerce en general" par Richard Cantillon. Richard Cantillon etait un financier et economiste d'origine irlandaise (1680-1734)."
"Essai sur la nature du commerce en general" par Richard Cantillon. Richard Cantillon etait un financier et economiste d'origine irlandaise (1680-1734...
