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Richard Cantillon (1680–1734) and Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)

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  • Mark Blaug

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Richard Cantillon was an Irish refugee who fled to France after the defeat of James II. As a business associate of John Law he sold stock on a rising market and made a fortune from the Mississippi Bubble. His one great book ‘Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General’ circulated widely among French and English economic writers and was widely quoted and even plagiarised by amongst others Hume, Turgot, Mirabeau, Stewart and Adam Smith.

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  • Mark Blaug, 1991. "Richard Cantillon (1680–1734) and Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 640.
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    1. Thornton Mark, 1998. "Richard Cantillon and the Origin of Economic Theory," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 1-14, March.
    2. Simon Bilo, 2018. "Lucas and Hume on Monetary Non-neutrality: A Tension between the Logic and the Technique of Economics," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 44(3), pages 364-380, June.

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    Economics and Finance;

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    • B0 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General

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