Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. Introduction -- 2. Law's Writings and his Critics -- 3. Law's Background -- 4. Duelling Beaux -- 5. The 'Gambling' Banker -- 6. Metamorphosis: John Law the Economist -- 7. The Edinburgh Environment in 1705 -- 8. Money and Trade -- 9. The Conceptualizatiun of the System -- 10. France 1714-1715 -- 11. The Establishment of the General Bank -- 12. The Establishment of the Company of the West -- 13. The Slow Development of the System -- 14. The Rise and Rise of the Mississippi Company, 1719 -- 15. A Specie-less France, 1720 -- 16. The Lull before the Storm -- 17. The Measures of 21 May 1720 -- 18. Law the Improviser -- 19. Requiem for the Banknote -- 20. The Possibility of a Recall to France -- 21. Death in Venice.