We will be talking about John Law the first financial engineer, the gambler who changed the world. This topic was inspired by a youtube video created by Patrick Boyle on Finance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5uKP...
His detailed video outlines the history of John Law and the story of the Mississippi bubble. I came across the channel when I was digging for information about the Gamestop saga, the presentation, informative content and dry humour had me trawling through his previous work for more goodies.
We will be doing an epistemicide exercise as prescribed by Dr Mvulane Moloi to get a feel for the Good the Bad and Ugly of this system we are living with by reflecting on where it all began and looking at the mastermind who put it together. In essence, we will go back to the start of the story to interrogate it. Discussing the system that John Law put together whose ideas and have spread globally and play a massive role in how finance and geopolitics work today.