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John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century. MacLehose Press. p. 528. ISBN 9781848666078. A biography/memoir of John Law's life and how he built his way to becoming an "economist abroad" in France, yet oversaw a debilitating bank run/financial crisis in the early 18th century. "The rise and fall of an alchemical Scottish economist".
- Economist, banker, financier, author, controller-general of finances
May 23, 2018 · John Law of Lauriston (1671–1729), economist, banker, merchant, and statesman, founded the first Bank of France and is generally held responsible for the Mississippi Bubble. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prosperous goldsmith–banker, who died when Law was only 13. However, his mother, who was distantly related to the duke of Argyll ...
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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.
Mar 20, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
John Law was a Scottish-French economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade. He served as Controller General of Finances under the Duke of Orleans, who was regent for the juvenile Louis XV of France. In 1716, Law set up a private Banque Générale in France. A year later it was nationalised at his request and renamed as Banque Royale. The ...
