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Richard Cantillon
Antoin E. Murphy
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Description for Richard Cantillon
hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 356 pages, 7 halftones, charts, tables. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 688.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198285359
SKU
V9780198285359
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Richard Cantillon
'It is a remarkable story, and the complexities of Cantillon's affairs are unravelled by Antoin Murphy with marvellous lucidity. Read it as an account of high finance in an age when financial sophistication was galloping ahead of the appropriate codes of business ethics. It must surely establish Cantillon's biographer as a master of this difficult genre of historical writing.'Business History ... Read more