John Law: The Projector is an 1864 historical novel by the British writer William Harrison Ainsworth.

[1] It was released in three volumes by the London publishing house Chapman and Hall.

[2][3] It focuses on the early eighteenth century Scottish financier John Law and his efforts to establish the Mississippi Company in Paris which ultimately went bankrupt after a speculative bubble.

[4] In 1871 Ainsworth wrote a serialised novel The South Sea Bubble focusing on the near-contemporary collapse of the British South Sea Bubble.

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