Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance by Janet Gleeson

Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance

Janet Gleeson

304 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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John Law, notorious for killing a man in a duel and acquiring a huge fortune from gambling, found a more congenial atmosphere for pursuing his financial visions in the bankrupt court of France's Louis XV. His idea of establishing a bank to issue p...

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