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John Law - A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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John Law - A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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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.
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