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===Non-fiction=== * {{Cite book |author=Adams, Gavin John |date= 2012 |title=Letters to John Law |publisher= Newton Page |isbn=9781934619087}} A collection of early eighteenth-century political propagandist pamphlets documenting the hysteria surrounding John Law's return to Britain after the collapse of his Mississippi Scheme and expulsion from France. It also contains a very useful chronology and extensive biographical introduction to John Law and the Mississippi Scheme. * {{Cite book |author=Adams, Gavin John |date= 2017 |title= John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings |publisher=Newton Page |isbn= 9781934619155 }} Includes the entire first lecture on the life of John Law to be delivered by the author at Law's ancestral home of [[Lauriston Castle]], and other accounts of John Law's life and the Mississippi Scheme by some of the most popular writers of the last 250 years, including: [[Bram Stoker]]; [[Washington Irving]], [[Charles Mackay (author)|Charles Mackay]]; [[Adam Smith]]; and [[Voltaire]]. * {{Cite book |author=Buchan, James |author-link=John Buchan |date= 2018 |title= John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century |publisher= MacLehose Press|pages= 528|isbn= 9781848666078}} A biography/memoir of John Law's life and how he built his way to becoming an "economist abroad" in France, yet oversaw a debilitating bank run/financial crisis in the early 18th century. ** {{Cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/09/13/the-rise-and-fall-of-an-alchemical-scottish-economist|title=The rise and fall of an alchemical Scottish economist|date=13 September 2018|newspaper=The Economist}} * {{Cite book |author=Defoe, Daniel |author-link=Daniel Defoe |date= 2013 |title= John Law and the Mississippi Scheme: An Anthology |publisher=Newton Page |isbn= 978-1934619070 }} Contains Defoe's contemporary accounts of the euphoria and excess of the first ever stock market boom unleashed by John Law and his Mississippi Scheme and his remarkable insight into the European economic crises of the 1720s. It includes: The Chimera (1720), The Case of Mr. Law Truly Stated (1721), and Selected Journalism (1719β1722). * {{cite book |last=Gleeson |first=Janet |title=The Moneymaker |year=1999 |place=London |publisher=Bantam Press |isbn=978-0-59304-498-8}} ** US edition: ''Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance'' (2001). New York: Simon & Schuster. {{ISBN|978-0-68487-295-7}}. * {{Cite book |author=Hyde, H. Montgomery |author-link=H. Montgomery Hyde |title=John Law: The History of an Honest Adventurer |date=1948 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61288|publisher= Home & Van Thal }} A post-war account of John Law. * [[John Lanchester|Lanchester, John]], [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-of-money "The Invention of Money: How the heresies of two bankers became the basis of our modern economy"], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', 5 & 12 August 2019, pp. 28β31. * {{Cite book |author=Mackay, Charles |author-link=Charles Mackay (author) |title=Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds|date=1841 |publisher= Richard Bentley}} A negative account of John Law. * {{Cite book |author=Minton, Robert |title=John Law: The Father of Paper Money |date=1975 |url=https://archive.org/details/johnlawfatherofp00robe |publisher=Association Press |isbn=978-0809619047 |url-access=registration}} * {{Cite book |author=Murphy, Antoin E. |date=1997 |title= John Law: Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker |publisher= Oxford University Press |isbn=9780198286493 }} The most extensive account of Law's writings. It is given credit for restoring the reputation of Law as an important economic theorist. * Pollard, S. (September 1953). "John Law and the Mississippi Bubble". ''History Today'' 3#9 pp. 622β630. {{JSTOR|j.ctt6wpz4m}}. * {{Cite book |author=Thiers, Adolphe |author-link=Adolphe Thiers |date= 2011 |title= The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law |publisher= Newton Page Classics |isbn= 978-1934619056 }} An account of the euphoria and wealth John Law created by engineering the first stock market boom, and the despair, poverty and destroyed lives that followed its crash. * Velde, Francois R. (2003). ''Government Equity and Money: John Law's System in 1720 France''. Available at SSRN: [https://ssrn.com/abstract=486983 Government Equity and Money: John Law's System in 1720 France] or {{doi|10.2139/ssrn.486983}}.
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