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Mark Thornton
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Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General . By Richard Cantillon. (Transaction Publishers, September 2001, 194 pages) $24.95. This just-released edition of Richard Cantillon’s Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General is to be hailed as an important event. The book, originally published in 1755, long has been recognized as the first systematic