Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Notes on Conventions -- Glossary -- A Cast of Characters -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Financial Revolution at Home: Scotland, 1690-1707 -- 3 'Land is What Produces Everything, Silver is Only the Product': The Land Bank Debates of England, North America, and Scotland, 1650-1705 -- 4 'The Proper Question is Not Whether Paper Money Be as Good as Silver or Gold, But Whether It is Better than No Money': William Burnet and the New Jersey Loan Office
5 'We are Far from Fairy Tale Mr Chancellor': John Law and the Proposed National Bank of France, 1701-02 -- 6 For the Want of 'Scots Projects': Scottish Financial Actors and Scottish Financial Institutions After 1707 -- 7 The Long Road to the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Growth of Scottish Banking, 1707-1772 -- 8 Conclusion -- Index
