Mises Daily
Author:
Elgin Groseclose
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[Excerpted from book 7, Money and Man .] The name of that ardent Scotsman, John Law, is short. His career was likewise short: he was comptroller general of France for less than five months in the year 1720. The space of time during which he bestrode the financial world of Europe like a Colossus scarcely exceeded five years at the most. The