The Moneymaker - Rilegato

The Moneymaker. First Printing.

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Libris Books
(Bristol, Regno Unito)

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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. London. Bantam Press/Transworld Publishers. 1999. First Edition/First Printing (1 in number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Burgundy boards with gilt spine titles. Book and pictorial dust wrapper are both new. Decorative endpapers. At the height of his fame, Scot John Law was the French Controller General of Finance, the so-called father of finance, and the man who dreamed up paper money and the credit economy. The rest of the time he was a gambler living off his winnings, eloping with another's man's wife, and escaping to Amsterdam, to narrowly avoid execution for killing a man in a duel. Law's trajectory set the scene for our own contemporary boom-to-bust economy. In the teeth of opposition from powerful vested interests, Law won backing to set up the first French bank in 1716 to issue paper currency. He created a trading company that made its shareholders so wealthy that a new term - millionaires - was coined to describe them. But when the bubble burst and speculation gave way to panic, he fled to Venice with his creditors at his heels, and died there a poor man. Codice articolo MAR13.22012

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