Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love and MoneyOxford University Press, 23. sept 1999 - 232 pages "I love you according to my bond," says Cordelia to her father in King Lear. As the play turns out, Cordelia proves to be an exemplary and loving daughter. A bond is both a legal or financial obligation, and a connection of mutual love. How are these things connected? In As You Like It, Shakespeare describes marriage as a "blessed bond of board and bed": the emotional, religious, and sexual sides of marriage cannot be detached from its status as a legal and economic contract. These examples are the pith of Frederick Turner's fascinating new book. Based on the proven maxim that "money makes the world go round," this engaging study draws from Shakespeare's texts to present a lexicon of common words, as well as a variety of familiar familial and cultural situations, in an economic context. Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, Turner demonstrates that the terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments. His book offers a new, humane, evolutionary economics that fully expresses the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic relationships among persons, and between humans and nature. Playful and incisive, Turner's book offers a way to engage the wisdom of Shakespeare in everyday life in a trenchant prose that is accessible to lovers of Shakespeare at all levels. |
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... Creating Nature " : How Human Economics Grows Out of Natural Increase 15 3 " Nothing Will Come of Nothing " : The Love Bond and the Meaning of the Zero 33 4 " My Purse , My Person " : How Bonds Connect People and Property , Souls and ...
... Creating Nature " : How Human Economics Grows Out of Natural Increase 15 3 " Nothing Will Come of Nothing " : The Love Bond and the Meaning of the Zero 33 4 " My Purse , My Person " : How Bonds Connect People and Property , Souls and ...
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... Creation Enters into Bonds 139 9 " Dear Life Redeems You " : The Economics of Resurrection 10 " O Brave New World " : 175 Shakespeare and the Economic Future 193 Further Reading 213 Index 217 Shakespeare's twenty - fIRST - CENTURY ...
... Creation Enters into Bonds 139 9 " Dear Life Redeems You " : The Economics of Resurrection 10 " O Brave New World " : 175 Shakespeare and the Economic Future 193 Further Reading 213 Index 217 Shakespeare's twenty - fIRST - CENTURY ...
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... creating bonds , using Shakespeare's profound understand- ing of them as a guide . Bonds and Money What is a financial bond ? For one thing , the terrifying contract that Antonio , the merchant of Venice , signs with the moneylender ...
... creating bonds , using Shakespeare's profound understand- ing of them as a guide . Bonds and Money What is a financial bond ? For one thing , the terrifying contract that Antonio , the merchant of Venice , signs with the moneylender ...
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... creation of unsafe working conditions , and the occasional shooting of union members . But this is bagatelle compared to the exploits of other sys- tems . Even Marxists agree that the horrors of the factory and tenement may not have ...
... creation of unsafe working conditions , and the occasional shooting of union members . But this is bagatelle compared to the exploits of other sys- tems . Even Marxists agree that the horrors of the factory and tenement may not have ...
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... created to prevent personal and civil strife from disrupting the flow of trade . In the writings of the seventeenth - century political philosopher John Locke , which deeply influenced the framers of our Constitution , it is quite clear ...
... created to prevent personal and civil strife from disrupting the flow of trade . In the writings of the seventeenth - century political philosopher John Locke , which deeply influenced the framers of our Constitution , it is quite clear ...
Contents
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How Human Economics Grows Out of Natural Increase | 15 |
The Love Bond and the Meaning of the Zero | 33 |
How Bonds Connect People and Property Souls and Bodies | 51 |
Why Justice Must Be Lubricated with Mercy | 75 |
How Does One Stamp a Value on a Coin and Make It Stick? | 93 |
Debt Time and the Parable of the Talents | 117 |
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