CiNii Books - Shakespeare's twenty-first-century economics : the morality of love and money

Based on the proven maxim that "money makes the world go round", this study, drawing from Shakespeare's texts, presents a lexicon of common words as well as a variety of familiar familial and cultural sitations in an economic context. Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, Turner demonstrates that 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 scholars and to the general reader.

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1: Introduction: Understanding Money 2: "Great Creating Nature": How Human Economics Grows out of Natural Increase 3: "Nothing Will Come of Nothing": The Love Bond and the Meaning of Zero 4: "My Purse, My Purse": How Bonds Connect People and Property, Souls and Bodies 5: "The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained": Why Justice Must be Lubricated with Mercy 6: "Never Call a True Piece of Gold a Counterfeit": How Does One Stamp a Value on a Coin and Make it Stick? 7: "Thou Owest God a Death": Debt, Time, and the Parable of the Talents 8: "Bounty...That Grew the More for Reaping": Why Creation Enters into Bonds 9: "Dear Life Redeems You": The Economics of Resurrection 10: "O Brave New World": Shakespeare and the Economic Failure Bibliography (Suggestions for Further Reading)

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