This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
]]><![CDATA[Richard Cantillon: The Founding Father of Modern Economics]]>
The honor of being called the "father of modern economics" belongs not to its usual recipient, Adam Smith, but to a gallicized Irish merchant, banker, and adventurer who wrote the first treatise on economics more than four decades before the publication of the Wealth of Nations, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).