ECONOMIST

Richard Cantillon

1680 - 1734

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Richard Cantillon (French: [kɑ̃tijɔ̃]; 1680s – May 1734) was an Irish-French economist and author of Essai Sur La Nature Du Commerce En Général (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General), a book considered by William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy". Although little information exists on Cantillon's life, it is known that he became a successful banker and merchant at an early age. His success was largely derived from the political and business connections he made through his family and through an early employer, James Brydges. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Cantillon has received more than 523,154 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Richard Cantillon is the 117th most popular economist (down from 95th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Economist.

Richard Cantillon is most famous for his theory of the "circular flow of wealth." Cantillon theorized that money moves in a circular fashion and that the use of money is not limited to a single transaction.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Richard Cantillon ranks 117 out of 414. Before him are Richard Stone, Thomas J. Sargent, William Nordhaus, Carlo M. Cipolla, Merton Miller, and Finn E. Kydland. After him are Edward C. Prescott, Joan Robinson, Jeremy Rifkin, Jean Tirole, Lucas Papademos, and Harriet Martineau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1680, Richard Cantillon ranks 8. Before him are Catherine Opalińska, Benjamin Hornigold, Saliha Sultan, Charles Vane, James Anderson, and Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Bulleh Shah, Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, John Machin, and Ephraim Chambers. Among people deceased in 1734, Richard Cantillon ranks 4. Before him are Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Georg Ernst Stahl, and Giovanni Ceva. After him are James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, Sebastiano Ricci, Rob Roy MacGregor, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Johann Conrad Dippel, Domenico Trezzini, and Danylo Apostol.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Cantillon ranks 54 out of 549. Before him are John Toland (1670), John Tyndall (1820), Edward England (1685), Dolores O'Riordan (1971), David Kelly (1929), and William C. Campbell (1930). After him are Mary Jane Kelly (1863), George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449), Colin Farrell (1976), Thomas Moore (1779), Sinéad O'Connor (1966), and Brian Cowen (1960).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Ireland

Among economists born in Ireland, Richard Cantillon ranks 1. After him are Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845).

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