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Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of
economic self-interest in early modern England by examining
literary representations of credit relationships in which
individuals are both held to standards of communal trust and
rewarded for risk-taking enterprise. Drawing on women's wills,
merchants' tracts, property law, mock testaments, mercantilist
pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the latest
work in economic theory and history, the book examines the history
of economic thought as the history of discourse. In chapters that
focus on The Merchant of Venice, Eastward Ho!, and Whitney's Wyll
and Testament, it finds linguistic and generic stress placed on an
ethics of credit that allows for self-interest. Authors also
register this stress as the failure of economic systems that deny
self-interest, as in the overwrought paternalistic systems depicted
in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Francis Bacon's New Atlantis.
The book demonstrates that Renaissance interpretive formations
concerning economic behaviour were more flexible and innovative
than appears at first glance, and it argues that the notion of
self-interest is a coherent locus of interpretation in the early
seventeenth century.
Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of
economic self-interest in early modern England by examining
literary representations of credit relationships in which
individuals are both held to standards of communal trust and
rewarded for risk-taking enterprise. Drawing on women's wills,
merchants' tracts, property law, mock testaments, mercantilist
pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the latest
work in economic theory and history, the book examines the history
of economic thought as the history of discourse. In chapters that
focus on The Merchant of Venice, Eastward Ho!, and Whitney's Wyll
and Testament, it finds linguistic and generic stress placed on an
ethics of credit that allows for self-interest. Authors also
register this stress as the failure of economic systems that deny
self-interest, as in the overwrought paternalistic systems depicted
in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Francis Bacon's New Atlantis.
The book demonstrates that Renaissance interpretive formations
concerning economic behaviour were more flexible and innovative
than appears at first glance, and it argues that the notion of
self-interest is a coherent locus of interpretation in the early
seventeenth century.
The meal most often prepared and served to houseguests in the
typical American home is breakfast. A fresh, exciting new idea in
cookbooks, this volume represents a practical guide for the hostess
who wishes to make the morning meal memorable. This collection
covers the complete range of foods and beverages for every
occasion-from basic meals to unusual recipes that complement and
round out an authentic dining experience. A Fancy Oyster Omelet,
Morning Tomato Salad, and hearty helping of Cheese Bread will get
anyone's day off to a roaring start.
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