John Law : economic theorist and policy-maker / Antoin E. Murphy.

John Law (1671-1729) is most widely known outside economics as a rake, duellist and gambler. This biography shows him to have been a significant economic theorist when economic conceptualization was very much at an embryonic stage. It also explains his ultimate failure.

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Main Author: Murphy, Antoin E.
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997.
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Law's Writings and his Critics -- 3. Law's Background -- 4. Duelling Beaux -- 5. The 'Gambling' Banker -- 6. Metamorphosis: John Law the Economist -- 7. The Edinburgh Environment in 1705 -- 8. Money and Trade -- 9. The Conceptualizatiun of the System -- 10. France 1714-1715 -- 11. The Establishment of the General Bank -- 12. The Establishment of the Company of the West -- 13. The Slow Development of the System -- 14. The Rise and Rise of the Mississippi Company, 1719 -- 15. A Specie-less France, 1720 -- 16. The Lull before the Storm -- 17. The Measures of 21 May 1720 -- 18. Law the Improviser -- 19. Requiem for the Banknote -- 20. The Possibility of a Recall to France -- 21. Death in Venice. 
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