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What would be the consequences to France if John Law had remained an unknown gambler and not become the top economist in France?

He's responsible for the first (or one of the first) national/central banks.
He's responsible for the Mississippi Company.

Both of these candles burn bright and quick, bringing initial success and hope, then crashing spectacularly.

Without the outrageous speculation, do banks develop in a more orderly fashion and thus be of greater long term benefit to the country? An impression I have is that it is thought that the crash caused the country to swear off central banks, although this may be more hype than reality.

Likewise, does the bubble in Mississippi really affect anything? development was going nowhere fast before it, and continued a slowly increasing pace afterward. The Natchez Massacre really put the brakes on the development, and I don't believe Natchez was part of the Law settler region (could be wrong) so I don't know as the two are really related, although I suppose without the Law influx of settlers, the Natchez settlers might not have come.
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