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Laddar... Millionaire - The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Fiance (urspr publ 1999; utgåvan 1999)av Janet Gleeson
VerksinformationMillionaire : The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance av Janet Gleeson (1999)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Interesting history on paper money in France ( ) This is simply a great read. John Law, who originally fled England, introduced paper money to France and created their first central bank, which led to the Mississippi bubble. This is a great insight to the human character of prosperity and greed. This is boom, Bust and Blame at its best. If you want to understand how bubbles manifest and grip a nation, read this. A wonderfully told biography. Incredible that it's a true story. Janet Gleeson has written a very good popular biography of John Law, whose financial schemes cannot but remind a modern reader of some of the monetary shenanigans we are familiar with from our own time. While I found myself wishing for some better source notes at times, this is an entirely decent book for its intended audience. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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In the wake of Louis XIV's death, France's government teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. Enter the reformer in the unlikely guise of John Law -- a supremely charming and attractive Scot whose brilliant financial mind had thus far served only to make himself rich at the gaming tables. In one of the great image makeovers of all time, John Law recharged a devastated French economy, making him one of the most successful men in Europe. When Law founded a New World trading company, the synergistic combination of faith in his ideas and wild reports of the riches to be made in France's vast holdings in America sent the price of its shares through the roof. Investors drunk on dreams of instant wealth gave birth to the first boom-and-bust cycle -- one that created such vast wealth for shareholders that a new term was coined to describe them...millionaires. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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