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 f

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 f

A survey of economic theory in the pre-modern era, this collection includes extracts from the works of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Antonio Serra, and David Hume.

The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the