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Author : Georges Oudard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Amazing Life of John Law written by Georges Oudard and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Georges Oudard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494096472
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (964 download)
Download or read book The Amazing Life of John Law written by M. Georges Oudard and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Author : James Buchan
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848666085
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)
Download or read book John Law written by James Buchan and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 £80,000. 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.
Author : Georges 1890- Oudard
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013438721
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Amazing Life of John Law, the Man Behind the Mississippi Bubble written by Georges 1890- Oudard and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Georges Oudard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (635 download)
Download or read book The Amazing Life of John Law, The Man Behind the Mississippi Bubble. Translated From "La Tres Curieuse Vie De Law" of Georges Oudard by G.E.C. Masse written by Georges Oudard and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Philip Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of John Law of Lauriston written by John Philip Wood and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adolphe Thiers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382326566
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law written by Adolphe Thiers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Gavin John Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934619087
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Letters to John Law written by Gavin John Adams and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antoin E. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198823483
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)
Download or read book John Law P written by Antoin E. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Law (1671-1729) left a remarkable legacy of economic concepts from a time when economic conceptualization was very much at an embryonic stage. Yet he is best known-and generally dismissed-today as a rake, duellist, and gambler. This intellectual biography offers a new approach to Law, one that shows him to have been a significant economic theorist with a vision that he attempted to implement as policy in early-eighteenth-century Europe. Law's style, marked by a clarity and use of modern terminology, stands out starkly against the turgid prose of many of his contemporaries. His vision of a monetary and financial system was certainly one of a later age, for Law believed in an economy of banknotes and credit where specie had no role to play. Ultimately Law failed as a policy-maker, in part because of the entrenchment of the financiers and their aristocratic backers and in part because of theoretical flaws in his vision. His struggle for power took place against the background of Europe's first major stock boom and collapse. The collapse of the Mississippi System, which he had conceived, and the South Sea Bubble led to a lasting impression of Law as a failure. It is this impression that Antoin Murphy seeks to dispel.
Author : John Guy
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782835415
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Gresham's Law written by John Guy and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden power behind three out of the five Tudor monarchs. Today his name is remembered in economic doctrines, in the institutions he founded and in the City of London's position at the economic centre of the earth. Without Gresham, England truly might have become a vassal state. His manoeuvring released Elizabeth from a crushing burden of debt and allowed for vital military preparations during the wars of religion that set Europe ablaze. Yet his deepest loyalties have remained enigmatic, until now. Drawing on vast new research and several startling discoveries, the great Tudor historian John Guy recreates Gresham's life and singular personality with astonishing intimacy. He reveals a calculating survivor, flexible enough to do business with merchants and potentates no matter their religious or ideological convictions. Yet his personal relationships were disturbingly transactional. He was a figure of cold unsentimentality even to members of his own family. Elizabeth I found herself at odds with Gresham's ambitions. In their collisions and wary accommodations, we see our own conflicts between national sovereignty and global capital foreshadowed. A story of adventure and jeopardy, greed and cunning, loyalties divided, mistaken or betrayed, this is a biography fit for a merchant prince.
Author : Janet Gleeson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743211898
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Millionaire written by Janet Gleeson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Already notorious for killing a man in a duel and for acquiring a huge fortune from gambling, Law had proposed to the English monarch that a bank be established to issue paper money with the credit based on the value of land. But Queen Anne was not about to take advice from a gambler and felon. So, in exile in Paris, he convinced the bankrupt court of Louis XV of the value of his idea. Law soon engineered the revival of the French economy and found himself one of the most powerful men in Europe. In August 1717, he founded the Mississippi Company, and the Court granted him the right to trade in France's vast territory in America. The shareholders in his new trading company made such enormous profits that the term "millionaire" was coined to describe them. Paris was soon in a frenzy of speculation, conspiracies, and insatiable consumption. Before this first boom-and-bust cycle was complete, markets throughout Europe crashed, the mob began calling for Law's head, and his visionary ideas about what money could do were abandoned and forgotten. In Millionaire, Janet Gleeson lucidly reconstructs this epic drama where fortunes were made and lost, paupers grew rich, and lords fell into penury -- and a modern fiscal philosophy was born. Her enthralling tragicomic tale reveals two great characters: John Law, with his complex personality and inscrutable motives, and money itself, whose true nature even to this day remains elusive.
Author : John Philip Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Memoir of the life of John Law of Lauriston ... written by John Philip Wood and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Money and Trade Considered written by John Law and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Law John Philip Wood
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015907508
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (75 download)
Download or read book An Memoirs of the Life of John Law of Lauriston: Including a Detailed Account of the Rise, Progress written by John Law John Philip Wood and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : H. Montgomery Hyde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book John Law written by H. Montgomery Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780025063600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (636 download)
Download or read book John Marshall, a life in law written by Leonard Baker and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive biography of John Marshall, soldier, lawyer, diplomat, and fourth Chief Justice of the United States.
Author : John Anthony Crook
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801492730
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Law and Life of Rome written by John Anthony Crook and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is about Roman law in its social context, an attempt to strengthen the bridge between two spheres of discourse about ancient Rome by using the institutions of the law to enlarge understanding of the society and bringing the evidence of the social and economic facts to bear on the rules of law.
