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John Law

1671 - 1729

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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 42,139 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. John Law is the 16th most popular economist (up from 20th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 241st 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.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, John Law ranks 16 out of 414. Before him are Joseph Schumpeter, Frédéric Passy, Alfred Marshall, François Quesnay, Ludwig von Mises, and Klaus Schwab. After him are Gunnar Myrdal, Paul Samuelson, Jean-Baptiste Say, Mario Draghi, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz.

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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, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Rob Roy MacGregor, 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, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Johann David Heinichen, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Louis Antoine de Noailles, and Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Law ranks 237 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Harold Godwinson (1022), Syd Barrett (1946), Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900), Benjamin Disraeli (1804), and William Wordsworth (1770). After him are Edward the Black Prince (1330), John Constable (1776), Jeremy Irons (1948), Ken Miles (1918), Ken Follett (1949), and Jimmy Page (1944).

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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), William Stanley Jevons (1835), John Hicks (1904), Benjamin Graham (1894), and Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877).

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