Isaac de Pinto
Isaac de Pinto · Economics & Business
Economist
1717, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic — 1787, The Hague, Dutch Republic
Dutch Republic · France · England
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De Pinto was a Dutch economist, financier and philosophe of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin, a major investor in the Dutch East India Company who wrote influential works on public credit and circulation that engaged Enlightenment thinkers and later economists. He is also remembered for his 'Apologie pour la Nation Juive,' a public defense of the Jewish people against Voltaire's antisemitic writings. He was a proud Sephardic Jew active in his community's affairs.
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