Essay on the Nature of Trade in General

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Publisher: Liberty Fund Print length: 176 pages ISBN-10: 0865978751 ISBN-13: 978-0865978751 Publication date: July 7, 2015 Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches Item Weight: 8 ounces isbn: 0865978751

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Essay on the Nature of Trade in General. Though written in the eighteenth century, the Essay has a considerable resonance for a twenty-first century audience. 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-first century audience. Antoin E. Murphy is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.