Richard Cantillon

`The comprehensiveness of Brewer's coverage of Cantillon's Essai, and his very clear and illuminating discussion of Cantillon's relationships to his predecessors and his successors, will ensure that this book becomes, alongside Murphy's biography, one of the standard works on someone who must rank as one of the greatest economic theorists of all time.' - Roger E. Backhouse, THES, Jan '93

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Cantillon's Economics; Chapter 2 The Economic and Social Framework; Chapter 3 Population; Chapter 4 Incomes; Chapter 5 The Land Theory of Value; Chapter 6 Money, Prices, and the Trade Balance; Chapter 7 Banking and Exchange Rates; Chapter 8 Trade and Trade Policy; Part II Cantillon's Place in the History of Economics; Chapter 9 Cantillon and his Predecessors; Chapter 10 Cantillon and his Successors; Chapter 11 Conclusion;