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Representing Public Credit
Author | : Natalie Roxburgh |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781317294887 |
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Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. It entailed new ways of thinking about the individual in relation to the State and was for many reasons a site of cultural negotiation and debate. At the same time, it required commitment from participants in order to function. Some of the debates relating to public credit, whose success was tied up in the way it was represented, find their way into contemporary fiction – in particular the eighteenth-century novel. This book reads eighteenth-century fiction alongside works of political economy in order to offer a new perspective on credible commitment and the rise of a credit economy facilitated by public credit. Works by authors such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Frances Burney are explored alongside lesser-known fictional texts, including some early it-narratives and novels of sensibility, to give a fully rounded view of the perception of public credit within England and its wider cultural and social implications. Strategies for representing public credit, the book argues, can be seen as contributing to the development of the English novel, a type of fiction whose emphasis on the individual can also be read as helping to produce a certain type of person, the modern financial subject. This interdisciplinary book draws from economic history and literary/cultural studies in order to make connections between the development of finance and an important facet of modern Western culture, the novel.
Representing Public Credit
Author | : Natalie Roxburgh |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781317294870 |
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Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. It entailed new ways of thinking about the individual in relation to the State and was for many reasons a site of cultural negotiation and debate. At the same time, it required commitment from participants in order to function. Some of the debates relating to public credit, whose success was tied up in the way it was represented, find their way into contemporary fiction – in particular the eighteenth-century novel. This book reads eighteenth-century fiction alongside works of political economy in order to offer a new perspective on credible commitment and the rise of a credit economy facilitated by public credit. Works by authors such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Frances Burney are explored alongside lesser-known fictional texts, including some early it-narratives and novels of sensibility, to give a fully rounded view of the perception of public credit within England and its wider cultural and social implications. Strategies for representing public credit, the book argues, can be seen as contributing to the development of the English novel, a type of fiction whose emphasis on the individual can also be read as helping to produce a certain type of person, the modern financial subject. This interdisciplinary book draws from economic history and literary/cultural studies in order to make connections between the development of finance and an important facet of modern Western culture, the novel.
Virtuous Bankers
Author | : Anne L. Murphy |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2023-05-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780691248431 |
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An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became “a great engine of state” The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders—and yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, “a great engine of state.” In Virtuous Bankers, Anne Murphy explores how this private organization became the guardian of the public credit upon which Britain’s economic and geopolitical power was based. Drawing on the voluminous and detailed minute books of a Committee of Inspection that examined the Bank’s workings in 1783–84, Murphy frames her account as “a day in the life” of the Bank of England, looking at a day’s worth of banking activities that ranged from the issuing of bank notes to the management of public funds. Murphy discusses the bank as a domestic environment, a working environment, and a space to be protected against theft, fire, and revolt. She offers new insights into the skills of the Bank’s clerks and the ways in which their work was organized, and she positions the Bank as part of the physical and cultural landscape of the City: an aggressive property developer, a vulnerable institution seeking to secure its buildings, and an enterprise necessarily accessible to the public. She considers the aesthetics of its headquarters—one of London’s finest buildings—and the messages of creditworthiness embedded in that architecture and in the very visible actions of the Bank’s clerks. Murphy’s uniquely intimate account shows how the eighteenth-century Bank was able to deliver a set of services that were essential to the state and commanded the confidence of the public.
Political Economy of Public Finance in Britain 1767 1873
Author | : Takuo Dome |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781134316649 |
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The period between 1767 and 1873 shaped public finance in Britain (and, by extension, many other countries) as we know it today, with the major economists of the time providing influential contributions. Until now, no book has examined and compared the thought of these 'classical economists' from the perspective of public finance rather than that of pure theory. This groundbreaking volume critically analyzes and compares the writings on government expenditure, taxation and public debt of thinkers such as Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus. These key figures are united by their struggles with fiscal theory - an important feature in the formation and development of political economy. An original and intriguing read, this book breathes fresh life into the history of economic thought. Dome's clear and exciting arguments will make for essential reading for historians of economic thought, economic historians and those with an interest in public finance.
The Edinburgh Review
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1814 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BML:37001103146069 |
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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen Embellished with splendid and authentic portraits
Author | : Robert Chambers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0023798291 |
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Principles of Business
Author | : Charles William Gerstenberg |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Business |
ISBN | : UOM:39015064491460 |
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Report 1957
Author | : India. Study Group on Worker Participation in Management |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Management |
ISBN | : MSU:31293101875544 |
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