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No. 786

*** ANTOIN E. MURPHY: John Law. Economiste et homme d'Etat. Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes - Peter Lang (1 av. Maurice, B-1050 Brussels. Tel: [phone] - Fax: [phone] - email: [e-mail] - Internet: www.peterlang.com). "Economie et Histoire" series, No. 2. 2007, 447 pp, €52-90. ISBN 978-90-5201-366-4.

This is an unusual book, both in terms of the life and personality of the man it describes and in terms of the exceptionally talented research of the author, Antoin...