John Law : economic theorist and policy-maker

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Antoin E.
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Law, John, > 1671-1729.
Law, John, > 1671-1729
Capitalists and financiers > Biography.
Finance > France > History.
Capitalists and financiers
Finance
Economische filosofie.
Economische politiek.
Finances > 18e siècle > France.
France
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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