Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index.
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.
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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 situations in an economic context. Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, Turner demonstrates that terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments. His book offers a new evolutionary economics that fully expresses the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic relationships among persons, and between humans and nature.