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Portrait: John Law, a Scottish-French economist and financier

26 March 2025 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: Portrait Reading Time: 11 minutes

John Law was a Scottish-French economist and financier. He served as Controller General of Finances under Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was regent for the juvenile Louis XV of France, and promoted a novel financial scheme for French public finances known as Law’s System (French: le système de Law) with two institutions at its core, John Law’s Bank and John Law’s Company. read more…