Compound Interest Corrected: The Imaginative Mathematics of the Financial Future in Early Modern England
What is money in the future worth today? In the seventeenth century, questionsabout the“present value”of future wealth became matters of practical concern, asbusinesspeople and governments deployed future-orientedfinancial technologieslike mortgages, bonds, and annuities. Those questions also attrac...
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University of Chicago Press
2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124565 |