The Department of Surfaces

Cantillon in Buenos Aires - why?

Department of Surfaces Season 1 Episode 4

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Richard Cantillon, financier, economist and entrepreneur died in 1734. Or did he? His biographer Antoin E Murphy thinks that, perhaps,  his story ended too conveniently. There is no evidence to suggest he fled to Buenos Aires, here's why.