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Source link: http://archive.mises.org/15036/richard-cantillon-the-founding-father-of-modern-economics/

Richard Cantillon: The Founding Father of Modern Economics

December 16, 2010 by

The honor of being called the “father of modern economics” belongs not to its usual recipient, Adam Smith, but to a gallicized Irish merchant, banker, and adventurer who wrote the first treatise on economics more than four decades before the publication of the Wealth of Nations. FULL ARTICLE by Murray N. Rothbard

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Stephen MacLean December 23, 2010 at 9:50 pm

I enjoyed reading Rothbard’s overview of the work of Richard Cantillon…

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