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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".
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 · 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. He was of Irish ...
Jan 12, 1989 · This book analyses the career and writings of the enigmatic Irish‐born economist Richard Cantillon, a banker and entrepreneur. Cantillon's work is examined in the context of the stock market speculation generated by John Law's Mississippi System and the South Sea Bubble of 1720.
W.S. Jevons, Richard Cantillon and the nationality of political economy (London, 1881). A.E. Murphy, Richard Cantillon: entrepreneur and economist (Oxford, 1986). J. Spengler, Richard Cantillon: first of the moderns, Vols I & II (Chicago, 1954). Kerryman Richard Cantillon was born in the 1680s to a Hiberno-Norman landowning family from ...
Abstract. An overall synopsis of the contents of the book. Keywords: Richard Cantillon, circular flow of income, entrepreneur, John Law. Subject. History of Economic Thought Individual Economists. Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online. Every good book, so one is told, should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
