Comments on: Turgot and What Might Have Been http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/05/12/turgot-and-what-might-have-been/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Sat, 26 May 2012 19:17:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Randy Westgren http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/05/12/turgot-and-what-might-have-been/#comment-70350 Mon, 12 May 2008 16:34:27 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=1540#comment-70350 Oh, for the days when economists had vast wealth! Most of the ones I remember as wealthy while being contemporaneously influential either used their knowledge to speculate skillfully on the value of shares (Ricardo, Cantillon, Law – briefly) or landholdings and commerce (Turgot, von Thunen).

These names are certainly among the early thinkers on entrepreneurship and interest.

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