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John Law


Alternative spellings:
Jan Law
Jean Law
John Law of Lauriston
John Law, Volkswirtschafter
John Law, Economiste
John Law, Political economist
John Law de Lauriston

B: 16. April 1671 Edinburgh
D: 21. März 1729
Biblio: Britischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Finanzexperte, 1718-1720 Generalkontrolleur der Finanzen in Frankreich; verantwortlich für die Mississippi-Spekulation 1719/20
Place of Activity: Paris
Death Place:
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Profession

  • Economist
  • Finanzminister
  • Bankier
  • Affiliations

  • Banque Générale Privée
  • Compagnie d'Occident
  • Compagnie des Indes
  • External links

  • Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France
  • Wikipedia (Deutsch)
  • Wikipedia (English)
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  • John Law (pronounced [lɑs] in French in the traditional approximation of Laws, the colloquial Scottish form of the name; 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade. He served as Controller General of Finances under the Duke of Orleans, who was regent for the juvenile Louis XV of France. In 1716, Law set up a private Banque Générale in France. A year later it was nationalised at his request and renamed as Banque Royale. The private bank had been funded mainly by John Law and Louis XV; three-quarters of its capital consisted of government bills and government-accepted notes, effectively making it the nation's first central bank. Backed only partially by silver, it was a fractional reserve bank. Law also set up and directed the Mississippi Company, funded by the Banque Royale. Its chaotic collapse has been compared to the 17th-century tulip mania in Holland. The Mississippi bubble coincided with the South Sea bubble in England, which allegedly took ideas from it. Law was a gambler who would win card games by mentally calculating odds. He originated ideas such as the scarcity theory of value and the real bills doctrine. He held that money creation stimulated an economy, paper money was preferable to metal, and dividend-paying shares a superior form of money. The term "millionaire" was coined for beneficiaries of Law's scheme. (Source: DBPedia)

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      1956
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      1913
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      1851
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      1843
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      1751
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      1720

    Series

    1. John Law (2)
    2. Cahiers de l'ISMEA / PE, Série "Œconomia", histoire de la pensée économique ; 15 (1)
    3. The sociological review / Monograph (1)
    4. Ullstein-Buch (1)