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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, showing that terms of money and value permeate our lives
eBook, English, 1999
Oxford University Press, New York, 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (232 p.)
9781280530487, 9780195351736, 9781429404754, 1280530480, 0195351738, 1429404752
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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 the Zero; 4 ""My Purse, My Person"": 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 Bonds9 ""Dear Life Redeems You"": The Economics of Resurrection; 10 ""O Brave New World"": Shakespeare and the Economic Future; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W
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English