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This intellectual biography aims to present a new approach to John Law (1671-1729), one that shows him as a significant economic theorist with a vision.

This is a study of Irish-born Richard Cantillon, eighteenth century banker and economist whose Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General (1755), published twenty-one years after his death, remains a significant contribution to the development of monetary theory.

John Law (1671-1729) is most widely known outside economics as a rake, duellist and gambler. This intellectual biography of the Scottish-born economic theorist and policy-maker 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.

This is a book about the discovery of the great macroeconomic concepts and ideas by a group of very exciting people between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth century. The writers concerned included the anatomist Sir William Petty, John Law a convicted Scottish murderer who became Prime Minister of France, Richard Cantillon, a multi-millionaire banker apparently murdered in London in 1734, the Scottish philosopher, David Hume, the Frenc...

This is a book about the discovery of the great macroeconomic concepts and ideas by a group of very exciting people between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth century. The writers concerned included the anatomist Sir William Petty, John Law a convicted Scottish murderer who became Prime Minister of France, Richard Cantillon, a multi-millionaire banker apparently murdered in London in 1734, the Scottish philosopher, David Hume, the Frenc...

Antoin E. Murphy nous livre ici la biographie intellectuelle d'une des personnalités les plus fascinantes de l'Europe de l'Ancien Régime, John Law (1671-1729). John Law chercha fortune à Londres, dont il s'enfuit en 1695. On le retrouve ensuite aux plus belles tables de jeu de l'Europe. Tout autre que lui se serait satisfait de cette vie de luxe et d'oisiveté, mais John Law avait une vision. Il croyait que l'économie basée sur les pièces d'or ...