Entrepreneurs

Written in French in the late 1720s, though not published until 1755, long after his death, Cantillon’s Essai contains the first known use of the term entrepreneur and is where he became the first economist to develop formally the now fundamental insights concerning the role entrepreneurship plays in the economy. Cantillon’s writing portrays entrepreneurs as ... Read more

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