Richard Cantillon (1680–1734) and Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) (Pioneers in Economics series, 9)

by Mark Blaug

Richard Cantillon was an Irish refugee who fled to France after the defeat of James II. As a business associate of John Law he sold stock on a rising market and made a fortune from the Mississippi Bubble. His one great book Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General circulated widely among French and English economic writers and was widely quoted and even plagiarised by amongst others Hume, Turgot, Mirabeau, Stewart and Adam Smith. Jacques Turgot...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852784717
• ISBN13: 9781852784713
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 7.3"