Cantillon
Cantillon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Daniel Cantillon (born 1945), American fencer. * Estelle Cantillon, economist. * Joe Cantillon (1861–1930), American baseball manager and umpire. * Marie André Cantillon (1781/82 - 1869), French army officer and failed assassin * Paddy Cantillon (fl. 1901), Irish hurler. * Phil Cantillon (born 1976), British rugby league footballer. * Richard Cantillon (–1734), Irish-French economist. ** Cantillon effect, economic concept proposed by Richard Cantillon. See also * Cantillon Brewery Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon ("Brewery Cantillon") is a small Belgian traditional family brewery based in Anderlecht, Brussels. Cantillon was founded in 1900 and exclusively brews lambic beers. Overview The brewery was founded in 1900 by Pa ...

Cantillon Effect
Richard Cantillon (; 1680s – ) 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. During the late 1710s and early 1720s, Cantillon speculated in, and later helped fund, John Law's Mississippi Company, from which he acquired great wealth. However, his success came at a cost to his debtors, who pursued him with lawsuits, criminal charges, and even murder plots until his death in 1734. ''Essai'' remains Cantillon's only surviving contribution to economics. It was written around 1730 and circulated widely in manuscript form, b ...
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