In this Book
- Essay on the Nature of Trade in General
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Liberty Fund
summary
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-firstcentury audience.
Antoin E. Murphy is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ix-xxii
- Part 1
- 1. Of wealth
- p. 3
- 2. Of human societies
- pp. 3-5
- 3. Of villages
- pp. 5-6
- 4. Of market towns
- pp. 6-8
- 5. Of cities
- pp. 8-9
- 6. Of capital cities
- pp. 9-10
- Part 2
- 1. Of barter
- pp. 55-56
- 2. Of market prices
- pp. 56-57
- 3. Of the circulation of money
- pp. 58-65
- Part 3
- 1. Of foreign trade
- pp. 105-113
- 2. Of the exchanges and their nature
- pp. 113-118
- 6. Of banks and their credit
- pp. 136-139
Additional Information
ISBN
9781614879152
Related ISBN(s)
9780865978751
MARC Record
OCLC
918932335
Pages
176
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-22
Language
English
Open Access
No