Essay on Economic Theory, An
Author : Richard Cantillon
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Commerce
ISBN : 1610164601
Richard Cantillon
Author : Antoin E. Murphy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1987-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191521442
Book Description
This is a study of Irish-born Richard Cantillon, eighteenth century banker and economist whose Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General (1755), published twenty-one years after his death, remains a significant contribution to the development of monetary theory. Cantillon's life was an exciting story of involvement in high-level international banking, and speculation in foreign exchanges, commodities and stocks at the time of the South Sea Bubble. His death occurred in mysterious circumstances.
Early Economic Thought
Author : Arthur Eli Monroe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0486447936
Book Description
A survey of economic theory in the pre-modern era, this collection includes extracts from the works of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Antonio Serra, and David Hume. Their writings in this volume illustrate the ways in which great thinkers of the past sought to argue for and explain the moral, ethical, monetary, and political dimensions of trade and exchange.
Essai Sur la Nature Du Commerce en Général
Author : Richard Cantillon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Commerce
ISBN :
Book Description
The Economics of Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship
Author : Simon C. Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139451863
Book Description
As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon C. Parker provides a timely, definitive and comprehensive overview of the field. In this book he brings together and assesses the large and disparate literature on these subjects and provides an up-to-date overview of new research findings. Key issues addressed include: the impact of ability, risk, personal characteristics and the macroeconomy on entrepreneurship; issues involved in raising finance for entrepreneurial ventures, with an emphasis on the market failures that can arise as a consequence of asymmetric information; the job creation performance of the self-employed; the growth, innovation and exit behaviour of new ventures and small firms; and the appropriate role for governments interested in promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship. This book will serve as an essential reference guide to researchers, students and teachers of entrepreneurship in economics, business and management and other related disciplines.
Richard Cantillon's Essay on the Nature of Trade in General
Author : Richard Cantillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317745256
Book Description
The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20. The work remained unpublished for about two decades, but when it appeared posthumously in Paris in 1755 the book was immediately recognised as a brilliant genre-defining contribution to the then emerging intellectual discipline of political economy. A degree of mystery has always surrounded the publication of the Essay. Cantillon died under mysterious circumstances in 1734, but the work survived in various manuscript forms. This edition offers an innovative mode of presentation, displaying for the very first time all print and manuscript versions of the Essay in parallel. This allows the reader to appreciate different formulations of Cantillon’s seminal contributions to a range of topics, including his circular flow analysis, monetary theory, theories of value and distribution, the role of the entrepreneur, spatial economics and international trade. Richly annotated and accompanied by a detailed study of the historical background of Cantillon’s writings, this new scholarly edition offers many new insights into this early masterpiece of economic theory.
The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce
Author : Malachy Postlethwayt
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release :
Category : Commerce
ISBN : 9780678005514
Book Description
The Genesis of Macroeconomics
Author : Antoin E. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199543224
Book Description
This is a book about the discovery of the great macroeconomic concepts and ideas by a group of exciting people between the late 17th and early 19th century. Engaging and vividly written, the book shows readers how economic concepts evolve over time and are influenced by contemporary developments.
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
Author : Murray Newton Rothbard
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release :
Category : Austrian school of economics
ISBN : 1610164776
Book Description
John Law
Author : Antoin E. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019828649X
Book Description
John Law (1671-1729) left a remarkable legacy of economic concepts from a time when economic conceptualization was very much at an embryonic stage. Yet he is best known-and generally dismissed-today as a rake, duellist, and gambler. This intellectual biography offers a new approach to Law, one that shows him to have been a significant economic theorist with a vision that he attempted to implement as policy in early-eighteenth-century Europe. Law's style, marked by a clarity and use of modern terminology, stands out starkly against the turgid prose of many of his contemporaries. His vision of a monetary and financial system was certainly one of a later age, for Law believed in an economy of banknotes and credit where specie had no role to play. Ultimately Law failed as a policy-maker, in part because of the entrenchment of the financiers and their aristocratic backers and in part because of theoretical flaws in his vision. His struggle for power took place against the background of Europe's first major stock boom and collapse. The collapse of the Mississippi System, which he had conceived, and the South Sea Bubble led to a lasting impression of Law as a failure. It is this impression that Antoin Murphy seeks to dispel.
