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Merryn Talks Money — John Law: The Gambler Who Invented Modern Money (Part 1)
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John Law: The Gambler Who Invented Modern Money (Part 1)

Merryn Talks Money

In this special two-part series, John Stepek and Merryn Somerset Webb tell the extraordinary story of John Law: a fugitive Scots gambler who became the most powerful financier in France and helped invent the modern monetary system. From murder and exile to paper money, banking revolutions and spectacular collapse,…

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