1. My discussion of the Mississippi Bubble is based in part on Brian Simpson, “Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle,” audio recording (Irvine, CA: Second Renaissance, Inc., 2005).
2. As quoted in Sir John Clapham, The Bank of England: A History, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), p. 106.
3. For more background information on Law, see Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1932 [1841]), pp. 1–5.
4. As quoted by Friedrich Hayek in Chapter 10 of The Trend of Economic Thinking. See W. W. Bartley III and Stephen Kresge, eds., The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, vol. 3 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991), p. 158.
5. Bartley and Kresge, Collected Works, pp. 157–158 and John Law, Money and Trade Considered, with a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money (New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1966 [1705]), pp. 5–13.