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Richard Cantillon (French: [kɑ̃tijɔ̃]; 1680s – May 1734) was an Irish-French economist and author of Essai Sur La Nature Du Commerce En Général (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General), a book considered by William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy".
May 9, 2024 · Richard Cantillon (born 17th century, Ballyheige, County Kerry, Ire.—died May 14, 1734, London) was an Irish economist and financier who wrote one of the earliest treatises on modern economics. Cantillon was an Irishman of Norman origins and Jacobite connections who spent much of his life in France.
Richard Cantillon (1680 – May, 1734) was an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a successful financier who made his fortune through speculation. He then turned to theoretical studies of economics, his only work being published posthumously, after he was murdered.
May 18, 2018 · Richard Cantillon was an Irish banker and economist who emigrated to Paris, where he profited from the financial scheme known as John Law ’ s Mississippi bubble (1720).
Who was Richard Cantillon? Kerry-born 18th-century banker, credited with the origin of the term entrepreneur, can lay claim to being the father of modern economics. Expand.
Richard Cantillon —the father of economics. Published in 18th–19th - Century History, Early Modern History (1500–1700), Features, General, Issue 2 (March/April 2013), Volume 21.
Aug 8, 2022 · During the eighteenth century, economist Richard Cantillon developed a theory to describe the inequalities of inflation. Discover how this macroeconomics concept has influenced understandings of the non-neutrality of money.
Cantillon was born in Ballyronan in County Kerry sometime between 1680 and 1690. It was a tumultuous decade in Irish political life, with the demarcation lines created by the Williamite victories over the Jacobite forces of James II at the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim surviving to this day.
This is a study of Irish-born Richard Cantillon, eighteenth century banker and economist whose Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General (1755), published twenty-one years after his...
Cantillon, Richard ( 1687 ?– 1734 ?), financier and economist, was born between 1680 and 1690 (most likely in 1687) at Ballyronan, in the parish of Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, second son of Richard Cantillon, a farmer whose ancestors had been dispossessed under Cromwell, and his wife Brigid, daughter of a kinsman, David Cantillon of Kilgobbin, Co ...
