New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ECONOMIST

John Law

1671 - 1729

Photo of John Law

Icon of person John Law

John Law (pronounced [lɑs] in French in the traditional approximation of Laws, the colloquial Scottish form of the name; 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish-French economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade. He served as Controller General of Finances under the Duke of Orleans, who was regent for the juvenile Louis XV of France. In 1716, Law set up a private Banque Générale in France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Law has received more than 40,140 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). John Law is the 21st most popular economist (down from 15th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 227th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Economist.

John Law was a Scottish economist who was most famous for his economic theories and the establishment of the Banque Royale in France.

Memorability Metrics

  • 40k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John Laws by language


Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, John Law ranks 21 out of 315. Before him are Ludwig von Mises, Mario Draghi, Jean-Baptiste Say, Paul Samuelson, Henri Fayol, and Amartya Sen. After him are Michael Porter, Joseph Stiglitz, Herbert A. Simon, Simon Kuznets, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, and William Petty.

Most Popular Economists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1671, John Law ranks 2. Before him is Tomaso Albinoni. After him are Frederick IV of Denmark, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Rob Roy MacGregor, Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Johann Christoph Bach. Among people deceased in 1729, John Law ranks 2. Before him is Thomas Newcomen. After him are Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, Jacob Roggeveen, Jean Meslier, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Johann David Heinichen, William Congreve, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, and Samuel Clarke.

Others Born in 1671

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1729

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Law ranks 241 out of 7,765. Before him are Lemmy (1945), Roger Penrose (1931), Harold Wilson (1916), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842). After him are Ken Loach (1936), Alexander Selkirk (1676), Clement Attlee (1883), James George Frazer (1854), David Gilmour (1946), and Bobby Charlton (1937).

Others born in United Kingdom

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, John Law ranks 7. Before him are Adam Smith (1723), John Maynard Keynes (1883), David Ricardo (1772), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), John Stuart Mill (1806), and Alfred Marshall (1842). After him are William Petty (1623), Ronald Coase (1910), Benjamin Graham (1894), John Hicks (1904), William Stanley Jevons (1835), and James Mill (1773).

British born Economists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL