Shakespeare's twenty-first-century economics : the morality of love and money
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Shakespeare's twenty-first-century economics : the morality of love and money
Oxford University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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