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Millionaire : the philanderer, gambler, and duelist who invented modern finance / Janet Gleeson

by Janet Gleeson

An account of the rise and fall of Scottish financial adventurer John Law, who revolutionised the eighteenth-century French economy through the introduction of paper currency and speculative trading before triggering a catastrophic European market crash.

Accession 18695 ISBN 0684872951 Publisher Simon & Schuster
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