Richard Cantillon Entrepreneur and Economist

Name: Richard Cantillon Entrepreneur and Economist
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ISBN: 9780198286820

ISBN-10: 0198286821

ISBN-13: 9780198286820

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Antoin E. Murphy

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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. Using much previously unpublished manuscript material, this study explains the nature of Europe's first stock exchange boom, the South Sea Bubble, and the Mississippi System, and shows how Cantillon's theorizing as an economist interacted with his activities as a banker-entrepreneur to make him one of Europe's wealthiest men in this period of frenetic stock exchange activity.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/23/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 6.19" wide x 9.19" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



richard Cantillon Entrepreneur And Economist


Richard Cantillon


Foreword


Acknowledgements


Note on Dating


Tables


Charts


Abbreviations for Principal Sources


An Example of Cantillon's Handwriting


Introduction


Richard Cantillon's Background


Cantillon's Early Career


Cantillon's Dï¿½but as a Banker in Paris, 1714-1717


John Law and Richard Cantillon: The First Mississippi Fortune - Phase One


Bernard Cantillon's Expedition to Louisiana, 1719


Lady Mary Herbert and Joseph Gage: Two of the Great Speculators of the Age


The Mississippi System: Phase Two


London and Amsterdam: The Great Crashes in These Cities in 1720


The Rich Mississippian and His Wife Mary Anne


Debt Collection and Its Legal Consequences


The Strange Accusations of Christopher Balfe


The Writing and Contents of the Essai Sur La Nature Du Commerce En Gï¿½nï¿½ral


The Demise of Richard Cantillon


The Publication of the Essai in 1755


Concluding Note


Appendix 1


Index