Description
Product ID: | 9780198285359 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Richard Cantillon |
Subtitle: | Entrepreneur and Economist |
Authors: | Author: Antoin E. Murphy |
Page Count: | 356 |
Subjects: | Economic theory and philosophy, Economic theory & philosophy |
Description: | A study of Irish-born Richard Cantillon, 18th 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Clarendon Press |
Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1987-03-12 |