Cantillon’s theory on income distribution was simple: the entrepreneur received all the profit. In fact, “his risk theory of profit [is] a means to identify entrepreneurship. Any agent, labourer, landlord, or capitalist who receives an uncertain income is an entrepreneur.”14 In this vein he saw the value of nay product in those terms, of payments to labour, capitalists and landlords. To some extent the author used himself as the payments to labour, capitalists and landlords. To some extent the author used himself as the entrepreneurial model. He made a fortune in share and currency speculation when he moved to France at the beginning of the 18th century. He was seen as being a natural trader, who “successfully associates risk and uncertainty with the administrative decision-making processes of entrepreneurs.”15 But more importantly, he broke with tradition, disrupting the feudal system even further. He disclosed that entrepreneurs could actually supersede their social status, that a beggar or a robber could be classed as an entrepreneurs or a person could amass wealth equal to those who had inherited it.