Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist

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Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist is written by Antoin E. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198285353 (ISBN 10) and 9780198285359 (ISBN 13).

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. Cantillon's life was an exciting story of involvement in high-level international banking, and speculation in foreign exchanges, commodities and stocks at the time of the South Sea Bubble. His death occurred in mysterious circumstances.