John Law - The First Financial Engineer - A History of Paper Money and The Mississippi Bubble
Send us a textJohn Law was a Scottish monetary reformer and originator of the “Mississippi scheme” for the development of French territories in America.After killing an adversary in a duel, he fled to Amsterdam, where he was a professional gambler and learned about banking operations. A decade later he returned to…
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