Richard Cantillon - Pioneer of Economic Theory (Hardcover, New)

Richard Cantillon was an 18th-century merchant. His only surviving work, the "Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General" was an astonishing achievement - the first analysis of the economy as an interrelated whole. Simply to sketch such a theory would have been a major advance, but Cantillon worked out the implications of his model with a rigour unmatched for a century or more. Although it was not published until 20 years after his death, and never widely known, it was a formative, if unacknowledged, influence on classical economics. This book is a study of Cantillon's economics. In the first part, Anthony Brewer sets out Cantillon's theory concluding with an examination of his mercantilist views. Mercantilism has been regarded as irrational ever since Smith's attack on it, but Cantillon's views are shown to be a logical consequence of his pioneering analysis of the workings of the international economic system. The second part of the book sets Cantillon in the context of the development of economic thought in the 17th- and 18th-centuries, and shows that he took less from his predecessors than has been thought, and gave more to his successors than they were willing to acknowledge.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1992
First published:	1992
Authors:	Tony Brewer
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-07577-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-07577-7
Barcode:	9780415075770

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