Essay on the Nature of Trade in General

By Richard Cantillon
Edited and with an Introduction by Antoin E. Murphy

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The Liberty Fund edition is a modernized translation of Richard Cantillon’s Essai sur la nature du commerce en général (1755) with a new introduction by Antoin E. Murphy. In the Essay, Cantillon outlined an extraordinary model-building approach showing how the economy could be built up, through progressive stages, from a command, barter, closed economy to a market economy, which uses money and is open. Though written in the eighteenth century, the Essay has a considerable resonance for a twenty-first century audience.

Antoin E. Murphy is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Details

Jul 2015 | 6 x 9 | 176 Pages

Introduction, index.

ISBNs

978-0-86597-874-4 Hardcover
978-0-86597-875-1 Paperback