The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance
by
Janet Gleeson
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
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...