1st Edition

Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General

By Richard Cantillon Copyright 2001
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more
Introduction, Table of Contents of the Essai, The Essai, Richard Cantillon and the Nationality of Political Economy, The Life and Work of Richard Cantillon

Biography

Cantillon, Richard