John Law’s Theory of money and its roots in Scottish culture

Pittock, M. (2003) John Law’s Theory of money and its roots in Scottish culture. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 133, pp. 391-403.

Abstract

This paper seeks to place the well-known lineaments of Law's System in France within the context not only of his earlier writings on the Scottish economy but also in the dimension of his lived experience as a 17th-century Scot, the son of a goldsmith-banker, and a man acutely conscious both of the history of his country's unstable monetary policy, and also of the final crisis into which it was lurching in his own day.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Pittock, Professor Murray
• Authors: Pittock, M.
• Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature
• Journal Name: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
• ISSN: 0081-1564