Richard Cantillons Essay on the Nature of Trade in General: A Variorum Edition

The <i>Essay on the Nature of Trade in General</i> 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banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20.&#12288; The work remained unpublished for about two decades, but when it appeared posthumously in Paris in 1755 the book was immediately r