Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(1):61-68 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.465

Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - Richard Cantillon

Pavel Sirůček
Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, Fakulta podnikohospodářská, katedra mikroekonomie (FPH) (e-mail: sirucek@vse.cz).

R. Cantillon was an irish merchant and banker whose birth, youth, financila activities and even death are secret. We know that he operated in France. Nowadays there has preserved the only his book, but this is often considered to be the first trully systematic economic treatise. Cantillon contributed to many economic topics and in many of them he was the first author.

Keywords: Richard Cantillon, predecessors of the classical school of political economy, monetary theory, spatial economics
JEL classification: B11, B41, B53, E31

Published: February 1, 2015  Show citation

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Sirůček, P. (2015). Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - Richard Cantillon. Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 23(1), 61-68. doi: 10.18267/j.aop.465
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