Titles by Richard Cantillon

1680 – 1734

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 pieces of the continuing puzzle that surrounds him.

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Essay on the Nature of Trade in general (Higgs ed.)

Richard Cantillon

Essay on the Nature of Trade in General (LF ed.)

Richard Cantillon

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