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Author:   Frederick Turner (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Texas at Dallas)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780195128611

ISBN 10:   0195128613
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   21 October 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Bibliography (Suggestions for Further Reading)

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Whereas many critics have attempted to fracture the myth of the all-knowing, all-wise Shakespeare, Turner argues compellingly that his work is remarkably insightful regarding 300 years of history and can be used to examine current socioeconomic issues...Readers will find food for thought in this gracefully presented text. Library Journal

Whereas many critics have attempted to fracture the myth of the all-knowing, all-wise Shakespeare, Turner argues compellingly that his work is remarkably insightful regarding 300 years of history and can be used to examine current socioeconomic issues....Readers will find food for thought in [this] gracefully presented text. --Library Journal<br> [Shows] us Shakespeare [the] Jacobean media tycoon.' [Turner] sees [the plays] as a serial advertisement for capitalism....[An] odd, intriguing book. --he New York Observer<br>

<br> Whereas many critics have attempted to fracture the myth of the all-knowing, all-wise Shakespeare, Turner argues compellingly that his work is remarkably insightful regarding 300 years of history and can be used to examine current socioeconomic issues....Readers will find food for thought in [this] gracefully presented text. --Library Journal<p><br> [Shows] us Shakespeare [the] Jacobean media tycoon.' [Turner] sees [the plays] as a serial advertisement for capitalism....[An] odd, intriguing book. --he New York Observer<p><br>

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