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With her previous book, the best selling The Arcanum, antiques expert Janet Gleeson proved that she had an eye for a good story, and a real flair for telling it clearly and economically. And The Moneymaker is a good story, well told, of modern banking's debt to the skill of the professional gambler. Understandably, there¹s some simplification of the status of money in the 17th and 18th centuries--a time when many people were still quite happy with mutually reciprocal credit arrangements--but in some ways, Gleeson goes beyond simply recreating the ostensible period of the book. Law's life has been told many times since the first biography in 1721; Gleeson's skill here is to realise its importance today, and to suggest its modern resonances-- as currencies disappear and markets crash with alarming regularity--without ever hammering them home. It's a fascinating tale. --Alan Stewart
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Book Description Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. At the time when wealth was stored and exchanged as gold and silver coin - and there was rarely enough to fund the extravagance of kings, let alone trade - Law realised that the overriding problem was lack of available money.KlappentextrnrnA. Seller Inventory # 595104496