Author: Daniel DefoePublisher: London : J.C. Hotten
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Daniel Defoe, His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings, Extending from 1716-1729
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher: London : J.C. Hotten
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Daniel Defoe
Author: William LeePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375046359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Daniel Defoe: The life of Daniel Defoe
Author: Daniel DefoeThe life of Daniel Defoe
Author: Daniel DefoeDaniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings, Extending from 1716 to 1729: The first volume of his writings
Author: Daniel DefoeGreat Bubbles, vol 2
Author: Ross B EmmettPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Periods of euphoria followed by sudden crashes are a familiar phenomenon in economics. Such events have become known as "bubbles". These volumes bring together writings on such phenomena - with works centering upon some of the more colourful examples.
Falling into Matter
Author: Elizabeth R. NapierPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442664320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Falling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century. Elizabeth R. Napier argues that despite an increasing emphasis on the need to present ideas in corporeal terms, early fiction writers continued to register spiritual and moral reservations about the centrality of the body to human and imaginative experience. Drawing on six works of early English fiction — Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Napier examines how authors grappled with technical and philosophical issues of the body, questioning its capacity for moral action, its relationship to individual freedom and dignity, and its role in the creation of art. Falling into Matter charts the course of the early novel as its authors engaged formally, stylistically, and thematically with the increasingly insistent role of the body in the new genre.
Catalogue of Books in the Roxbury Branch Library of the Boston Public Library. Including the Collection of the Fellowes Athenaeum. Together with Notes for Readers Under Subject-references
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385488753
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Roxbury Branch Library of the Boston Public Library, Including the Collection of the Fellowes Athenæum, Together with Notes for Readers ... Second Edition, Etc
Author: BOSTON, Massachusetts. Public Library. Roxbury BranchPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Price of Time
Author: Edward ChancellorPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802160077
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn’t always popular—in the ancient world, usury was generally viewed as exploitative, a potential path to debt bondage and slavery. Yet as capitalism became established from the late Middle Ages onwards, denunciations of interest were tempered because interest was a necessary reward for lenders to part with their capital. And interest performs many other vital functions: it encourages people to save; enables them to place a value on precious assets, such as houses and all manner of financial securities; and allows us to price risk. All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest is often described as the “price of money,” but it is better called the “price of time:” time is scarce, time has value, interest is the time value of money. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, interest rates have sunk lower than ever before. Easy money after the global financial crisis in 2007/2008 has produced several ill effects, including the appearance of multiple asset price bubbles, a reduction in productivity growth, discouraging savings and exacerbating inequality, and forcing yield starved investors to take on excessive risk. The financial world now finds itself caught between a rock and a hard place, and Edward Chancellor is here to tell us why. In this enriching volume, Chancellor explores the history of interest and its essential function in determining how capital is allocated and priced.