Richard Cantillon (died 1734) was an Irish-French banker, merchant and economist whose only surviving work, the Essay on the Nature of Trade in General, was written around 1730, circulated in manuscript and was published in 1755. The economist William Stanley Jevons called it the cradle of political economy. Little is certain about his life: he was probably born in the 1680s in County Kerry, built a fortune through banking connections and through speculation in John Law Mississippi Company, and was pursued by angry debtors until his death. The essay is regarded as the first complete treatise on economics, with contributions on cause and effect, monetary theory, the entrepreneur as a risk bearer and the spatial organisation of economic life. It influenced Adam Smith, Turgot, Say and Quesnay.
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was an Irish-French economist and author of Essai
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These contributions include: his cause and effect methodology, monetary theories
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