John Law
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Scottish businessman who founded the Mississippi Company, contributing to an 18th-century financial bubble.
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Collective Stupidity -- How Can We Avoid It?
Sabine Hossenfelder
Scottish businessman who founded the Mississippi Company, contributing to an 18th-century financial bubble.
Peterson Academy | Dr. Charles Calomiris | The History of Financial Crises | Lecture 1 (Official)
Peterson Academy
A Scottish schemer and central character in the Mississippi Bubble. Described as extremely creative and understanding of new financial innovations, but who took his ideas too far by trying to fix market prices.
How One Voting Change In 1920 Quietly Built The $39 Trillion Welfare State
Tom Bilyeu
Economist who, along with Lawrence Kenny, co-authored a paper in 1999 showing that women's suffrage correlated with increased state government spending.