Cantillon, Richard -1734 creator Higgs, Henry 1864-1940 text utu 2020 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Essai sur le commerce" by Richard Cantillon is an economic treatise written around 1730 and published posthumously in 1755. This groundbreaking work, considered by William Stanley Jevons as the "predecessor of political economy," introduces the Cantillon Effect—the theory that monetary expansion creates unequal economic impacts, benefiting those who first access newly created money while disadvantaging the general population. The book analyzes major elements of eighteenth-century economics, incorporating physiocratic, mercantilist, classical, and other economic perspectives. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay_on_the_Nature_of_Trade_in_General Wikipedia page about this book: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensayo_sobre_la_naturaleza_del_comercio_en_general Release date is 2020-06-04 Produced by Clarity, Thummel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Original publication data not identified Economics Commerce HB Original publication data not identified 06027951 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62318 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62318 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134433.0 62318