The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law

A fascinating biography of Scottish financier John Law. An account of the financial operations of John Law and his ‘Compagnie des Indes', including a great number of relative memoirs, letters patent, decrees, declarations, etc. Marmont du Hautchamp had been an admirer of John Law's system and his book is not written without partiality but has yet been recognized as the best contemporary history of the system and its most precious source. John Law's operations began with the foundation in 1716 of