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Adds usefully to the study of Law ... a rational sympathetic treatment of Law's efforts to convert the French financial system from specie to paper notes ... One of this book's many virtues is a careful analysis of the documents brought together by Paul Harsin in the three volumes of what he called Law's Oeuvres completes ... The result of this critical scholarship is an impressive documentation ... this is a fine addition to the subject as a whole and deserves to be widely read. * J.F. Bosher, York University, Toronto, EHR * Few have had the economic expertise and archival experience that Antoin Murphy displays in this impressive book. In a series of clearly written short chapters, Murphy outlines Law's early career, and the influence on his thinking of the growth of large banking and trading companies in Britain or the United Provinces ... This is not the first study of the unusual Scotsman's career, but is by far the most complete and authoritative, written with great clarity and based on meticulous research. * Irish Times * A detailed exegesis of his writings. * The Observer Review Section, 6 July 1997 * Murphy's exploration of Law's own canon is sophisticated, scholarly and convincing... the most profound, sound and thoughtful study of Law available. The treatment of the Company of the West is masterly; as a claim for Law as an economist, Murphy's case is powerful and a valuable corrective to the easy dismissals of caricature. This is a very important study. * Murray G.H. Pittock, Eighteenth-Century Ireland * Aside from Murphy's masterful account of Law's contribution to economic thought, the book contains other stories to read. * Finance * Impressive book. In a series of clearly written short chapters Murphy outlines Law's early career ... With deft archival detective work Murphy sorts out Law's genuine publications from the many false attributions, and argues that he was an original thinker who left behind a rich vein of economic writing ... This is not the first study of the unusual Scotsman's career, but is by far the most complete and authoritative, written with great clarity and based on meticulous research. * The Irish Times * Dr Murphy deserves our gratitude for having now rescued two remarkable men in a remarkable century from undeserved obscurity. * Irish Independent *

Dr Murphy deserves our gratitude for having now rescued two remarkable men in a remarkable century from undeserved obscurity. * Irish Independent * Impressive book. In a series of clearly written short chapters Murphy outlines Law's early career ... With deft archival detective work Murphy sorts out Law's genuine publications from the many false attributions, and argues that he was an original thinker who left behind a rich vein of economic writing ... This is not the first study of the unusual Scotsman's career, but is by far the most complete and authoritative, written with great clarity and based on meticulous research. * The Irish Times * Aside from Murphy's masterful account of Law's contribution to economic thought, the book contains other stories to read. * Finance * Murphy's exploration of Law's own canon is sophisticated, scholarly and convincing... the most profound, sound and thoughtful study of Law available. The treatment of the Company of the West is masterly; as a claim for Law as an economist, Murphy's case is powerful and a valuable corrective to the easy dismissals of caricature. This is a very important study. * Murray G.H. Pittock, Eighteenth-Century Ireland * A detailed exegesis of his writings. * The Observer Review Section, 6 July 1997 * Few have had the economic expertise and archival experience that Antoin Murphy displays in this impressive book. In a series of clearly written short chapters, Murphy outlines Law's early career, and the influence on his thinking of the growth of large banking and trading companies in Britain or the United Provinces ... This is not the first study of the unusual Scotsman's career, but is by far the most complete and authoritative, written with great clarity and based on meticulous research. * Irish Times * Adds usefully to the study of Law ... a rational sympathetic treatment of Law's efforts to convert the French financial system from specie to paper notes ... One of this book's many virtues is a careful analysis of the documents brought together by Paul Harsin in the three volumes of what he called Law's Oeuvres completes ... The result of this critical scholarship is an impressive documentation ... this is a fine addition to the subject as a whole and deserves to be widely read. * J.F. Bosher, York University, Toronto, EHR *

Dr Murphy deserves our gratitude for having now rescued two remarkable men in a remarkable century from undeserved obscurity. * Irish Independent * Impressive book. In a series of clearly written short chapters Murphy outlines Law's early career ... With deft archival detective work Murphy sorts out Law's genuine publications from the many false attributions, and argues that he was an original thinker who left behind a rich vein of economic writing ... This is not the first study of the unusual Scotsman's career, but is by far the most complete and authoritative, written with great clarity and based on meticulous research. * The Irish Times * Aside from Murphy's masterful account of Law's contribution to economic thought, the book contains other stories to read. * Finance * Murphy's exploration of Law's own canon is sophisticated, scholarly and convincing... the most profound, sound and thoughtful study of Law available. The treatment of the Company of the West is masterly; as a claim for Law as an economist, Murphy's case is powerful and a valuable corrective to the easy dismissals of caricature. This is a very important study. * Murray G.H. Pittock, Eighteenth-Century Ireland * A detailed exegesis of his writings. * The Observer Review Section, 6 July 1997 * Few have had the economic expertise and archival experience that Antoin Murphy displays in this impressive book. In a series of clearly written short chapters, Murphy outlines Law's early career, and the influence on his thinking of the growth of large banking and trading companies in Britain or the United Provinces ... This is not the first study of the unusual Scotsman's career, but is by far the most complete and authoritative, written with great clarity and based on meticulous research. * Irish Times * Adds usefully to the study of Law ... a rational sympathetic treatment of Law's efforts to convert the French financial system from specie to paper notes ... One of this book's many virtues is a careful analysis of the documents brought together by Paul Harsin in the three volumes of what he called Law's Oeuvres completes ... The result of this critical scholarship is an impressive documentation ... this is a fine addition to the subject as a whole and deserves to be widely read. * J.F. Bosher, York University, Toronto, EHR *

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Antoin E. Murphy was a Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard, the Institut d'Etude Demographiques in Paris, the Hoover Institution and the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His special interests are in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and the history of monetary thought. He was one of the joint managing editors of the European History of Economic Thought.

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