Scottish economist and banker (1671-1729)
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Proposals and reasons for constituting a council of trade in Scotland. By the celebrated John Law Esq; Afterwards Comptroller of the Finances in France. First Published at Edinburgh in the 1700. In which Many National Improvements of Great Importance are Pointed out, viz. The proper means of employing the poor, and preventing idleness. Of National Granaries, and their advantages. Of the improvements of Mines and other products of this kingdom. Of the advancement of Manufactures in quantity and quality. Of the setting on foot and promoting the Salt proper for Fisheries. Of the flourishing state of the Fisheries in the reign of James I. of Scotland; with an account of the causes of their gradual decline to their extinction: Reasons why the means hitherto us'd to restore them have proved ineffectual, and the true means to make them flourish pointed out. Of Monopolies, and their effects. Of reducing the Interest of Money. Of Foreign trade, and the carrying it on effectually. Of Taxes, and the method of making them subservient to Trade, &c
Paterson, William 1658-1719.Date: 1751- E-books
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Proposals & reasons for constituting a council of trade
Paterson, William 1658-1719.Date: 1701- E-books
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The present state of the French revenues and trade , and of the controversy betwixt the Parliament of Paris, and Mr. Law. Containing the Parliament of Paris's remonstrance to the King, April 17, 1720. against reducing annuities to Two per Cent. A letter in answer to it, by Mr. Law. A Letter of his, on the New System of the Finances, and particularly on the Reimbursment of Annuities. His Letter about Credit, and its Use. An Answer to those Two Letters, approving the System. A Letter by Mr. Law, treating further of Annuities and Credit, and explaining the Use of Money, and the Advantages of Bank Bills in particular. A Letter upon the Arret of the Council of State, dated the 22d of May, 1720.
Date: 1720
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A letter to Cleomenes King of Sparta , from Eustace Budgell, Esq; being an answer, paragraph by paragraph, to his Spartan majesty's royal epistle published some time since in the Daily Courant. With some account of the manners and government of the antient Greeks and Romans, and Political Reflections thereon.
Budgell, Eustace 1686-1737.Date: 1731- E-books
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A letter to Mr. Law, upon his arrival in Great Britain
Budgell, Eustace 1686-1737.Date: 1721- Pictures
Death as an allegory of the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720]Reference: 816096i- E-journals
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The memoirs life and character of the great Mr. Law and his brother at Paris . Down to this present year 1721, with an accurate and particular account of the establishment of the Missisippi Company in France, the rise and fall of it's stock, and all the subtle artifices used to support the national credit of that kingdom, by the pernicious project of paper-credit. Written by a Scots Gentleman.
Gray, Mr.Date: 1721
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A dwarf reading. Engraving, 1720.
Date: 1720Reference: 3999i