Richard Cantillon: The Founding Father of Modern Economics
The honor of being called the "father of modern economics" belongs not to its usual recipient, Adam Smith, but to a gallicized Irish merchant, banker, and adventurer who wrote the first treatise on economics more than four decades before the publication of the Wealth of Nations, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).
This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
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