Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist
Murphy, Antoin E. Senior Lecturer in Economics, Trinity College Dublin
Print publication date: 1989 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-828682-0




10 The Rich Mississippian and His Wife Mary Anne
doi:10.1093/0198286821.003.0010

Antoin E. Murphy
Abstract: Cantillon was listed by the 1722 Visa in France as a Mississippian millionaire. Around this time, he married Mary Anne O’Mahony, a friend of people such as Lady Wortley Montagu and Montesquieu.

Keywords: France, Lady Wortley Montagu, Mary Anne O’Mahony, millionaires, Montesquieu, Visa,

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Full Book Contents
1 Introduction
2 Richard Cantillon's Background
3 Cantillon's Early Career
4 Cantillon's Début as a Banker in Paris, 1714–1717
5 John Law and Richard Cantillon: The First Mississippi Fortune — Phase One
6 Bernard Cantillon's Expedition to Louisiana, 1719
7 Lady Mary Herbert and Joseph Gage: Two of the Great Speculators of the Age
8 The Mississippi System: Phase Two
9 London and Amsterdam: The Great Crashes in These Cities in 1720
10 The Rich Mississippian and His Wife Mary Anne
11 Debt Collection and Its Legal Consequences
12 The Strange Accusations of Christopher Balfe
13 The Writing and Contents of the Essai Sur La Nature Du Commerce En Général
14 The Demise of Richard Cantillon
15 The Publication of the Essai in 1755
Appendix
Index
 
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