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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2016]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Raving at usurers: The life and death of David Jones
- 2. Hazarding all for God: The death of usury and the Financial Revolution, reconsidered
- 3. Risk and adventure in the Age of Projects: Noah, Defoe, Crusoe
- 4. Risk aversion and the economization of prudence: Fielding, gambling, gifts
- Conclusion John Ruskin and the ghost of David Jones.