The ‘Gambling’ Banker

In John Law: Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker. Oxford University Press UK (1997)
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Law was considered as a type of eighteenth‐century bookmaker rather than as a gambler. The chapter discusses his use of mathematical skills that ensured that he won at the gambling tables of Europe.

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