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John Law (pronounced in French in the traditional approximation of Laws, the colloquial Scottish form of the name; [1] [2] 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish-French [3] economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade.
Money and Trade Considered: With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money is an early economics text written by John Law of Lauriston, published in 1705. [1] In it, he attempts to compare the prosperity of other countries with that of Scotland, and advocates a "land bank" system of paper money backed by real estate as a commodity, instead of gold or silver.
Two Overtures Humbly Offered to his Grace John Duke of Argyll, Her Majesties High Commissioner, and the right Honourable the Estates of Parliament is a pamphlet of economic proposals written by the early eighteenth-century economist John Law of Lauriston which was published in 1705.
View of the camp of John Law at Biloxi, December 1720. The Mississippi Company (French: Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719 [1]) was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies.
Works by John Law. Pages in category "Works by John Law (economist)" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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An 81-year-old economist spent decades giving Americans retirement advice — but even she still made 2 big mistakes in her own planning. Here's what they are and how to avoid them Alicia Munnell ...
An intellectual precursor of Keynesian economics was underconsumption theories associated with John Law, Thomas Malthus, the Birmingham School of Thomas Attwood, [11] and the American economists William Trufant Foster and Waddill Catchings, who were influential in the 1920s and 1930s.