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Date	Author	Publication	Comment	Historical Events
1714	Bernard Mandeville	Fable of the Bees	provocative mercantilist	The Enlightenment (1700s) Peace of Utrecht (1713) Windsor dynasty begins in England (1714)
1752	David Hume	Political Discourses	international trade theory	Georgia founded as haven for debtors (1733) English mine nearly 5 million tons of coal a year (1750)
1755	Richard Cantillon	On the Nature of Commerce	precursor of classicals	Series of devastating earthquakes hit Lisbon, Portugal, killing approximately 70,000 people and felt as far away as Sweden (1755)
1758	François Quesnay	Tableau Economique	insight into the interrelatedness of economy	Seven Years' War (1756-1763) Voltaire publishes Candide (1758)
1776	Adam Smith	Wealth of Nations	first comprehensive treatise in economics	American Revolution (1775-1783) American Declaration of Independence (1776) Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776)
1798	Thomas Robert Malthus	Essay on Population	population thesis	French Revolution (1789-1799) Slater opens first textile mill in the United States (1790) Bank of the United States granted a twenty-year charter (1791) Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin (1793) Napoleon invades Egypt (1798)