Essai sur le Commerce

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Excerpt from Essai sur le Commerce: Reprinted For Harvard University The Essai sur la Nature du 00 mmerce en Général was Written between 1730 and 1734 by Richard Cantillon, a natural-born British subject, of the family of Cantillon of Ballyheigue, co. Kerry, Ireland. He Was probably born between 1680 and 1690. In 1716 he established himself as a banker in Paris, Where his cousin, the Chevalier Richard Cantillon (died in 1717), had long traded, rst as a silk mercer, then as a banker. Our author soon became ourishing, but, having given umbrage to John Law by his outspoken belief in the ultimate failure of the Mississippi scheme, he found it dangerous to remain in France. He therefore quitted that country in 1719, but continued his Paris business in the name of a nephew, Richard Cantillon, and gained enormous prots by speculating for the fall of Mississippi shares. Out of these speculations arose several lawsuits, in the course of which he Was once arrested in Paris, and spent a night in prison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.