Mises Wire
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Phil Duffy
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For those who have any exposure to the subject, Adam Smith is the father of modern economics. Few have heard of Richard Cantillon. Both wrote on the subject of wealth creation, Cantillon in Essay on the Nature of Trade in General and Smith in The Wealth of Nations . Of the two, Cantillon, who preceded Smith, may have had a firmer grasp on the