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Antoin E. Murphy. OUP Oxford, Mar 12, 1987 - Business & Economics - 356 pages. 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.
Feb 5, 2018 · Richard Cantillon, Un Mercantiliste Precurseur des Physiocrates (Paris, 1900). Like most other studies of Cantillon, it suffers from the shortcoming that a focusses not so much on Cantillon’s originality as on the question whether one should consider him as being still part of the Mercantilists or already part of the Physiocrats.
But a far greater influence on Richard Cantillon's career and intellectual development came from the Scotsman John Law. This relationship between Cantillon and Law is a fascinating one, both at the personal and at the economist level. They were business partners at one stage, although later Law threatened to imprison Cantillon in the Bastille.
Three historical economists founded the theory of entrepreneurship: Richard Cantillon (approx 1680–1734) in the eighteenth century, Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) in the nineteenth century, and Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883–1950) in the twentieth century. All three brought the same determining elements: uncertainty, risk, and innovation.
Antoin E. Murphy. Oxford University Press, 1986 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages. This is the first biography of entrepreneur and economist Richard Cantillon whose major work, Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General (1755), remains one of the most important works on economics written in the 18th century.
Cantillon's father had a first-cousin, another Richard Cantillon (known as the chevalier Cantillon), who was established as a banker in Paris. It appears to have been as agent for the chevalier that Cantillon handled funds for British prisoners-of-war in France (1707–10).
May 15, 2015 · 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 The work remained unpublished for about two decades, but when it appeared posthumously in Paris in 1755 the book was immediately recognised ...
