King William's tontine : why the retirement annuity of the future should resemble its past / Moshe M...
King William's tontine : why the retirement annuity of the future should resemble its past / Moshe M...
King William's tontine : why the retirement annuity of the future should resemble its past / Moshe Milevsky, York University, Toronto.
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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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G 2015/4044
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English
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xv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
King Billy, Protestant hero of England; -- Tontine's economic origins : cheaper debt -- A most curious Will(iam) and older than you think -- The million act to fight a war against France -- Don't Englishmen die? Anti-selection vs. fraud -- Is your tontine a stock or a bond? -- Optimal tontine : hedg...
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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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"In a time before bonds, treasury notes, or central banks, there were tontines. These were schemes in which a group of investors lent money to a government, corporation, or king, similar to a modern-day loan syndicate. But unlike conventional debt, periodic interest payments were distributed only to survivors. As tontine nominees died, the income o...
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King William's tontine : why the retirement annuity of the future should resemble its past / Moshe Milevsky, York University, Toronto.
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.
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G 2015/4044
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74VKRaAvoE3M
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1107430755 (pbp.)
9781107076129 (hbk.)
1107076129 (hbk.)
9781107430754 (pbp.)
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368.37
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991023145979702626
