Antoin E Murphy

John Law P

Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker

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Produktbeschreibung

This intellectual biography aims to present a new approach to John Law (1671-1729), one that shows him as a significant economic theorist with a vision.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780198823483
• ISBN-10: 0198823487
• Artikelnr.: 50991592

Autorenporträt

Antoin E. Murphy was a Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard, the Institut d'Etude Demographiques in Paris, the Hoover Institution and the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His special interests are in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and the history of monetary thought. He was one of the joint managing editors of the European History of Economic Thought.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Law's Writing 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 Conceptualization 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
Notes
Bibliography