An Essay on Economic Theory

Publish Date: 19-07-1755

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Source: Ludvig von Mises Institute

Author(s): Richard Cantillon

Type: Essay/Thoughts/Whitepaper/Opinion

Synopsis: Here is the first accurate translation of Richard Cantillon's 1755 masterpiece on economics. This treatise is widely credited with being the first to describe the market process as one driven by entrepreneurship. William Stanley Jevons, in the first blush of discovery, proclaimed Cantillon’s Essai, “the cradle of political economy.”

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