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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".
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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.
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May 18, 2018 · Cantillon, Richard. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Richard Cantillon (1680?–1734), author of the Essai sur la nature du commerce en general (1755), is considered by many to be the earliest writer on economic matters who might appropriately be described as an “economist,” because his analysis encompassed the price system and its workings.
Jan 12, 1989 · Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en général (1755) was one of the great analytical works of economics of the eighteenth century. In it, Cantillon showed how to construct a basic model of the macroeconomy and the role of money in such a model. Cantillon was the first to introduce the role of the entrepreneur into economic analysis.
Richard Cantillon, Irish born but living in Paris as a young man, from circumstances became a banker/broker there, and moved in influential, educated social circles. Intrigue, murder, posthumous plagiarism, citations by Adam Smith, rediscovery by William Stanley Jevons a century later, and a stunning work on entrepreneurial risk, money, foreign exchange, and banking from the 1700s, are all ...
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 death, remains a significant contribution to the development of monetary theory.
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