Richard Cantillon

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 1 Introduction; Part I Cantillon's Economics; Chapter 2 The Economic and Social Framework; Chapter 3 Population; Chapter 4 Incomes; Chapter 5 The Land Theory of Value; Chapter 6 Money, Prices, and the Trade Balance; Chapter 7 Banking and Exchange Rates; Chapter 8 Trade and Trade Policy; Part II Cantillon's Place in the History of Economics; Chapter 9 Cantillon and his Predecessors; Chapter 10 Cantillon and his Successors; Chapter 11 Conclusion;