Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambl...

Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented late Finance. Janet Gleeson. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999 303 pp $2400

"'Millionaire' does not cast in a winding direction much new light on Law's motivations, and the occasional forays into psychoanalysis are inconsistent and unpersuasive. about historians may also argue that this account overstates Law's contributions to late finance, given the more solid contributions of Amsterdam and British bankers. yet Gleeson, whose book 'The Arcanum' managed