Research Catalog
John Law : a Scottish adventurer of the eighteenth century
- Title
- John Law : a Scottish adventurer of the eighteenth century / James Buchan.
- Author
- Buchan, James
- Publication
- London : MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd, 2018.
- ©2018
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Use in library | HG172.L3 B83 2018 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest. On the continent he lurched from one money-making scheme to the next - selling insurance against losing lottery tickets in Holland, advising the Duke of Savoy - amassing a fortune of some GBP80,000. But for his next trick he had grander ambitions. When Louis XIV died, leaving a thoroughly bankrupt France to his five-year-old heir, Law gained the ear of the Regent, Philippe D'Orleans. In the years that followed, Law's financial wizardry transformed the fortunes of France, enriching speculators and investors across the continent, and he was made Controller-General of Finances, effectively becoming the French Prime Minister. But the fall from grace that was to follow was every bit as spectacular as his meteoric rise. John Law, by a biographer of Adam Smith and the author of Frozen Desire and Capital of the Mind, dramatises the life of one of the most inventive financiers in history, a man who was born before his time and in whose day the word millionaire came to be coined"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Law, John, 1671-1729
- Law, John, 1671-1729
- Law, John 1671-1729
- Gim, Yun hwan
- 1715-1774
- Economists > Scotland > Biography
- Capitalists and financiers > Scotland > Biography
- Économistes > Écosse > Biographies
- Capitalists and financiers
- Economists
- Kapitalmarkt
- Kreditwesen
- Papiergeld
- Finanzkrise
- Börsenspekulation
- Öffentliche Schulden
- Finanzinnovation
- France > History > Louis XV, 1715-1774
- France > Histoire > 1715-1774 (Louis XV)
- France
- Scotland
- Frankreich
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Note
- Maps on lining papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-493) and index.
- Contents
- Lotteries and other games -- A monkey business -- Gibberish language -- Plum man -- Law and company -- The island of Mississippi -- The bed of justice -- Mills of paper -- Atlas in the Quincampoix -- The golden fleece -- 888 -- Fall from grace -- A broken dandy -- Facing nothing.
- ISBN
- 0857053388
- 9780857053381
- 9781848666078 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018410805
- OCLC
- ocn951226851
- 951226851
- SCSB-9169249
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library