Through readings of a range of late Middle English texts, this book demonstrates the ways in which gender ideology provided a vocabulary for articulating fears and fantasies about money and value in the late Middle Ages.
Managing the Dollar, published four years after the Plaza Agreement took place, was the initial analysis of lessons learned and takeaways from the finance ministers' policy efforts in 1985.
This is the first comprehensive introduction to Langland's masterful work, covering all three iterations and outlining the various changes that occurred between each.
This book illustrates how many of the most exciting changes in harnessing people’s savings; widening credit and insurance; and lowering the cost of technologies, payments and money transfers are taking place in Africa, Asia, and Latin ...
Andy James' taut, insightful thriller switches from the Côte d'Azur to Corsica and finally to the tiny Italian prison island of Pioni where only the daring rescue of a convicted mobster will be enough to save Jonti from Pazzano and his ...
Essays in this collection address economies of debt and gift giving in Intruder in the Dust; the legacies of commodity fetishism in Sanctuary and of twentieth-century capitalism's financial turn in The Town; the pegging of self-esteem to ...