ABSTRACT

Richard Cantillon, writing fifty years before Adam Smith, was the first to see the economy as an interrelated whole, and the first to give a coherent account of how it works. This is the first comprehensive study of his economic theory and of his place in the history of the subject.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

part |103 pages

Cantillon's Economics

chapter |13 pages

Population

chapter |12 pages

Incomes

chapter |14 pages

The Land Theory of Value

chapter |7 pages

Banking and Exchange Rates

chapter |15 pages

Trade and Trade Policy

part |76 pages

Cantillon's Place in the History of Economics

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion