Social Scientists & Scholars, Economic Theory & Schools of Thought, Business Biography
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Overview
This is the first biography of entrepreneur and economist Richard Cantillon whose major work, Essai sur la nature du commerce en général (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 Using much previously unpublished manuscript material, this study explains the nature of Europe's first stock exchange boom, the South Sea Bubble, and the Mississippi System, and shows how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
Published
February 23, 1989
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Pages
356
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780198286820