There are puzzling features in Cantillon's Essai and puzzles in what has been written about him. Also puzzling is the fact that these puzzles have not been thought important enough to study if indeed they have been thought about at all. May not one then ask if Cantillon ought to be read again and if what has been written about him should be re-examined? … I suggest, the effort is called for …What he said in praise of the market is difficult to reconcile with what he said in praise of departing from it. The difficulty is usually gotten over by making little of his exceptions to it and attributing them to his not having entirely liberated himself from mercantilism. But that will not do - the exceptions are important. William D. Grampp (1992, pp. 64, 73)
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