Culture | Wind and smoke
The rise and fall of an alchemical Scottish economist
He killed a man in a duel, then ruined the finances of France
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century. By James Buchan. MacLehose Press; 528 pages; £30.
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