Experience about the nature of commerce. General issues. Kantillon R.

Richard Kantillon is the most mysterious figure in the history of economic thought, and his “Experience about the nature of commerce” is a book without which economic science would be different. Her ideas became the basis of the “economic table” of physiocrats, in many respects anticipated the theory of the population of Maltus, the classical theories of value and money, the theory of entrepreneurship and the spatial economy.

“The cradle of political economy” called it by W. S. Jevons, accidentally discovered a century and a half after writing. This publication is the first full translation of the “experience” of the cantillon into Russian. It was based on the first French edition of 1755 and the English translation of the city of Higgs in 1931, as well as on the results of modern studies of Cantillon’s work, reflected in two reprints of “Experience” in 2015: the translation of A. Murphy and the unique varion of publication. In addition to the text of the “Experience”, the Tom publishes the translation of the Jevons of 1881, which returned the name of the author after centuries of oblivion, the article by Alexandra Eidelnant of 1927 is the only work of the Soviet period about Cantillone, as well as an introductory article on the personal fate of the author of “Experience” and an accompanying article About the place of the cantillon in the history of economic science.

The publication of "experience" is addressed to economists, science historians, all interested in the era of education and the history of social thought.