The Tontine : a history / Andrew McDiarmid.
ISBN
9781003491002 electronic book
1003491006 electronic book
9781040251546 electronic book
1040251544 electronic book
9781040251621 electronic book EPUB
1040251625 electronic book EPUB
9781032791999 hardcover
9781032792064
1003491006 electronic book
9781040251546 electronic book
1040251544 electronic book
9781040251621 electronic book EPUB
1040251625 electronic book EPUB
9781032791999 hardcover
9781032792064
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Routledge, 2025.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (xiv, 94 pages).
Dizi
Routledge Focus on Financial History
İçindekiler Notu
1.The Tontine: Here, There, and Everywhere2.The Origins and Early Examples of the Tontine: 1602-16993.Public Tontines in the Eighteenth Century4.Private Tontines in Great Britain and Ireland, Europe, and North America: 1750-19005.The Rise and Fall of Tontine Life Insurance in the United States, 1867-19066.The Long Shadow of the TontineIndex
Özet, vb.
From the last decades of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the twentieth, the tontine, in one form or another, was a ubiquitous financial instrument. As a revenue-raising tool of governments it supported the cost of war, and as a private capital-raising instrument it provided funding for civic improvement and urban development projects. While the tontine is known today mainly through fictional works (Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie, and The Simpsons among others), this book tells the history of how it evolved from a public revenue-raising scheme into a popular private investment and infrastructure financing tool, before it was displaced by cheaper forms of borrowing. Focusing on the early development of the tontine, and with European and North American case studies, the narrative brings to life the story of a little-understood financial innovation. This concise and engaging book is an ideal introduction to the history of the tontine for all readers interested in financial history.
Konu
Tontine life insurance policies __ History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History __ bisacsh
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History __ bisacsh
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