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...
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EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Learning Center, Standort Wiesbaden, Fachbibliothek Rechtswissenschaften
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index
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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 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