Raving at usurers : anti-finance and the ethics of uncertainty in England, 1690-1750 / Dwight Codr.

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Codr, Dwight, 1975- [author.]

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TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780813937809
0813937809
9780813937816
0813937817

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Raving at usurersDDC classification:

332.8/3094209033 23

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HG1623.G7 C63 2016eb

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Contents:

1. Raving at usurers: The life and death of David Jones -- 2. Hazarding all for God: The death of usury and the Financial Revolution, reconsidered -- 3. Risk and adventure in the Age of Projects: Noah, Defoe, Crusoe -- 4. Risk aversion and the economization of prudence: Fielding, gambling, gifts -- Conclusion John Ruskin and the ghost of David Jones.

Summary: Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-usury literature an "ethic of uncertainty" that viewed economic transactions as ethical to the extent that their outcomes were uncertain. Codr's development of an "anti-financial" reading practice reveals that the financial revolution might be said to have grown out of--rather than in spite of--early modern anti-usury and Protestant ethics

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Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-usury literature an "ethic of uncertainty" that viewed economic transactions as ethical to the extent that their outcomes were uncertain. Codr's development of an "anti-financial" reading practice reveals that the financial revolution might be said to have grown out of--rather than in spite of--early modern anti-usury and Protestant ethics

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