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(1680-1734)
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Editor/Trans.
Henry Higgs, ed. and trans.
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First Pub. Date
1730?
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Publisher/Edition
London: Frank Cass and Co., Ltd.
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Pub. Date
1959
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Comments
Includes "Richard Cantillon and the Nationality of Political Economy," by W. Stanley Jevons (1881).
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| Cover Table of Contents |
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| About the Book and Author | |
| Introduction, by Henry Higgs | |
| Previous Editions, by Henry Higgs | |
| Part I | |
| I.I Of Wealth | |
| I.II Of Human Societies | |
| I.III Of Villages | |
| I.IV Of Market Towns | |
| I.V Of Cities | |
| I.VI Of Capital Cities | |
| I.VII The Labour of the Husbandman is of less Value than that of the Handicrafts-Man | |
| I.VIII Some Handicrafts-Men earn more, others less, according to the different Cases and Circumstances | |
| I.IX The Number of Labourers, Handicraftsmen and others, who work in a State is naturally proportioned to the Demand for them | |
| I.X The Price and Instrinsic Value of a Thing in general is the measure of the Land and Labour which enter into its Production | |
| I.XI Of the Par or Relation between the Value of Land and Labour | |
| I.XII All Classes and Individuals in a State subsist or are enriched at the Expense of the Proprietors of Land | |
| I.XIII The circulation and exchange of goods and merchandise as well as their production are carried on in Europe by Undertakers, and at a risk | |
| I.XIV The Fancies, the Fashions, and the Modes of Living of the Prince, and especially of the Landowners, determine the use to which Land is put in a State and cause the variations in the Market-prices of all things | |
| I.XV The Increase and Decrease of the Number of People in a State chiefly depend on the taste, the fashions, and the modes of living of the proprietors of land | |
| I.XVI The more Labour there is in a State the more naturally rich the State is esteemed | |
| I.XVII Of Metals and Money, and especially of Gold and Silver | |
| Part II | |
| II.I Of Barter | |
| II.II Of Market Prices | |
| II.III Of the Circulation of Money | |
| II.IV Further Reflection on the Rapidity or Slowness of the Circulation of Money in Exchange | |
| II.V Of the inequality of the circulation of hard money in a State | |
| II.VI Of the increase and decrease in the quantity of hard money in a State | |
| II.VII Continuation of the same subject | |
| II.VIII Further Reflection on the same subject | |
| II.IX Of the Interest of Money and its Causes | |
| II.X Of the Causes of the Increase and Decrease of the Interest of Money in a State | |
| Part III | |
| III.I Of Foreign Trade | |
| III.II Of the Exchanges and their Nature | |
| III.III Further explanations of the nature of the Exchanges | |
| III.IV Of the variations in the proportion of values with regard to the Metals which serve as Money | |
| III.V Of the augmentation and diminution of coin in denomination | |
| III.VI Of Banks and their Credit | |
| III.VII Further explanations and enquiries as to the utility of a National Bank | |
| III.VIII Of the Refinements of Credit of General Banks | |
| "Richard Cantillon and the Nationality of Political Economy," by W. Stanley Jevons | |
| "Life and Work of Richard Cantillon," by Henry Higgs | |
| Appendix A | |
| Appendix B, Bibliography | |
| Footnotes | |
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