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
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