Millionaire

This 1999 work chronicles John Law's extraordinary journey from seventeenth-century gambler to revolutionary economist. His early years as a London dandy gave way to prominence as a financial visionary across Europe. Law's economic theories delivered temporary prosperity to both himself and France, but ultimately exposed the perils of speculative markets and cyclical economic collapses. Though his system crumbled during his lifetime, many of Law's concepts eventually took root and now form essential components of contemporary finance.