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Mar 21, 2024 · John Law (baptized April 21, 1671, Edinburgh, Scotland—died March 21, 1729, Venice, Italy) was a Scottish monetary reformer and originator of the “Mississippi scheme” for the development of French territories in America. Law studied mathematics, commerce, and political economy in London. After killing an adversary in a duel, he fled to ...
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e. John Law (pronounced [lɑs] in French in the traditional approximation of Laws, the colloquial Scottish form of the name; [1] [2] 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish-French [3] economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade. He served as Controller General of Finances under the ...
- Economist, banker, financier, author, controller-general of finances
Sep 5, 2020 · For example: John Law was a convicted murderer on the lam when he showed up in France in the early 1700s. In the space of just a few years, he created an entire modern economy — banks, paper ...
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John Law (baptized April 21, 1671 - March 21, 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself, and that national wealth depended on trade. His popular fame rests on two remarkable enterprises he conducted in Paris: The Banque Générale and the Mississippi Scheme.
Aug 30, 2018 · John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century, by James Buchan, MacLehose, RRP£25, 544 pages Felix Martin is author of ‘Money: The Unauthorised Biography’ Join our online book ...
Jun 26, 1997 · Abstract. Despite his popular reputation as a rake and a gambler, John Law (1671–1729) left a remarkable legacy of economic concepts at a time when economic conceptualization was very much at an embryonic stage. His vision of a monetary and financial system was more of the twenty‐first rather than the eighteenth century.
Aug 29, 2018 · In John Law he returns to the theme, this time framing what he has to say about finance within the story of a remarkable life. Law was the son of an Edinburgh goldsmith (Buchan, another Scot, likes to quote contemporary remarks on the “perfidy”, “insularity” and “deep drinking” of the English).
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