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Raving at Usurers : Anti-Finance and the Ethics of Uncertainty in England, 1690-1750 /

Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Codr, Dwight, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-usury literature an "ethic of uncertainty" that viewed economic transactions as ethical to the extent that their outcomes were uncertain. Codr's development of an "anti-financial" reading practice reveals that the financial revolution might be said to have grown out of--rather than in spite of--early modern anti-usury and Protestant ethics
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813937816