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Author Codr, Dwight, 1975- author.

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

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Usury -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Usury.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Usury -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Usury in literature -- History -- 17th century.
Usury in literature.
Usury in literature -- History -- 18th century.
Usury -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
Usury -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Finance -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Finance.
Finance -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Economics.
Economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.
Economic conditions.
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 1600-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Codr, Dwight, 1975- Raving at usurers 9780813937809 (DLC) 2015025725 (OCoLC)912382871
ISBN 9780813937809 (electronic book)
0813937809 (electronic book)
9780813937816 (electronic book)
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