The Interest

Author : Michael Taylor
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1847925723

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The Interest by Michael Taylor Pdf

For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer. In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British colonies remained in slavery. And when a renewed abolitionist campaign was mounted, making slave ownership the defining political and moral issue of the day, emancipation was fiercely resisted by the powerful 'West India Interest'. Supported by nearly every leading figure of the British establishment - including Canning, Peel and Gladstone, The Times and Spectator - the Interest ensured that slavery survived until 1833 and that when abolition came at last, compensation was given not to the enslaved but to the slaveholders. Worth e340 billion in today's money, this was the largest pay-out in British history before the banking rescue package of 2008, incurring a national debt that was only repaid in 2015 and entrenching the power of slaveholders and their families to shape modern Britain. Drawing on major new research, this long-overdue and ground-breaking history shows that the triumph of abolition was also one of the darkest episodes in British history, revealing the lengths to which British leaders went to defend the indefensible in the name of profit.

Author : Jacob Sider Jost
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813945064

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Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century by Jacob Sider Jost Pdf

Can a single word explain the world? In the British eighteenth century, interest comes close: it lies at the foundation of the period’s thinking about finance, economics, politics, psychology, and aesthetics. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century provides the first comprehensive account of interest in an era when a growing national debt created a new class of rentiers who lived off of interest, the emerging discipline of economics made self-interest an axiom of human behavior, and booksellers began for the first time to market books by calling them "interesting." Sider Jost reveals how the multiple meanings of interest allowed writers to make connections—from witty puns to deep structural analogies—among different spheres of eighteenth-century life. Challenging a long and influential tradition that reads the eighteenth century in terms of individualism, atomization, abstraction, and the hegemony of market-based thinking, this innovative study emphasizes the importance of interest as an idiom for thinking about concrete social ties, at court and in families, universities, theaters, boroughs, churches, and beyond. To "be in the interest of" or "have an interest with" another was a crucial relationship, one that supplied metaphors and habits of thought across the culture. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century recovers the small, densely networked world of Hanoverian Britain and its self-consciously inventive language for talking about human connection.

Author : George Oates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015064507232

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Interest Tables, in which is Shown the Interest on Any Sum from 1 to 10,000, at 6 Per Cent. Per Annum, from 1 Day to 94 Days - from 4 Months to 11 Months - and from 1 Year to 6 Years - All Consecutively, Both for 360 Days and 365 Days to the Year by George Oates Pdf

Author : John S. Ahlquist,Margaret Levi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400848652

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In the Interest of Others by John S. Ahlquist,Margaret Levi Pdf

In the Interest of Others develops a new theory of organizational leadership and governance to explain why some organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not benefit their members directly. John Ahlquist and Margaret Levi document eighty years of such activism by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in the United States and the Waterside Workers Federation in Australia. They systematically compare the ILWU and WWF to the Teamsters and the International Longshoremen's Association, two American transport industry labor unions that actively discouraged the pursuit of political causes unrelated to their own economic interests. Drawing on a wealth of original data, Ahlquist and Levi show how activist organizations can profoundly transform the views of members about their political efficacy and the collective actions they are willing to contemplate. They find that leaders who ask for support of projects without obvious material benefits must first demonstrate their ability to deliver the goods and services members expect. These leaders must also build governance institutions that coordinate expectations about their objectives and the behavior of members. In the Interest of Others reveals how activist labor unions expand the community of fate and provoke preferences that transcend the private interests of individual members. Ahlquist and Levi then extend this logic to other membership organizations, including religious groups, political parties, and the state itself.

Author : John W. TORREY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018166095

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Torrey's Interest Tables, showing at sight or by one addition, the interest on any number of dollars, etc by John W. TORREY Pdf

Author : afterwards SCOTT FITZROY (Duke of Monmouth and of Buccleuch., James)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1680
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : BL:A0021009941

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The Interest of the Three Kingdom's, with Respect to the Business of the Black Box, and All the Other Pretentions of His Grace the Duke of Monmouth, Discuss'd and Asserted. In a Letter to a Friend by afterwards SCOTT FITZROY (Duke of Monmouth and of Buccleuch., James) Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264104938

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Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service OECD Guidelines and Country Experiences by OECD Pdf

The OECD Guidelines for Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service provide the first international benchmark in this field. This report highlights trends, approaches and models across OECD countries in a comparative overview that also presents examples of innovative and recent solutions.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Express highways
ISBN : UOM:39015081121280

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To Authorize Payment of Interest on Bonds the Proceeds of which Were Used for Projects on the Interstate System by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Pdf

Author : Paul J. Silvia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190289218

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Exploring the Psychology of Interest by Paul J. Silvia Pdf

Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition, development, education, aesthetics, personality, motivation, and vocations have developed intriguing ideas about what interest is and how it works. Exploring the Psychology of Interest presents an integrated picture of how interest has been studied in all the wide-ranging areas of psychology. Using modern theories of cognition and emotion as an integrative framework, Paul Silvia examines the nature of interest, what makes things interesting, the role of interest in personality, and the development of peoples idiosyncratic interests, hobbies, and avocations. His examination reveals deep similarities between seemingly different fields of psychology and illustrates the profound importance of interest, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation for understanding why people do what they do. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Exploring the Psychology of Interest will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology.

Author : W. C. Bridges
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382123758

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Tables for the Calculation of Interest on all sums frome One to Ten Thousand Dollars by W. C. Bridges Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Joseph W. Conard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Interest
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Introduction to the Theory of Interest by Joseph W. Conard Pdf

Author : Dick Frase,Robert W. Helm,Martin James Day
Publisher : Sweet & Maxwell
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780414049413

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A Practitioner's Guide to Conflicts of Interest in the Financial Services Industry by Dick Frase,Robert W. Helm,Martin James Day Pdf

This title examines in a practical manner the complex law and regulations that now exist in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and various other important jurisdictions concerning the concept of conflicts of interest and how the principles have been applied in the financial services industry

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Conflict of interests
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110742769

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Conflict of Interest Problems Within the Presidential Executive Interchange Program by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Pdf

Author : John Gotanda
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041106452

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Supplemental Damages in Private International Law:The Awarding of Interest, Attorneys' Fees and Costs, Punitive Damages and Damages in Foreign Currency Examined in the Comparative and International Context by John Gotanda Pdf

Supplemental Damages in Private International Law guides the reader through complex damages issues and their treatment around the glove. This is the first contemporary book to exclusively and comprehensively examine issues and problems presented in determining compensatory interest, moratory interest, damages in the comparative and international context, and issues arising from the awarding of damages in foreign currency. Attorneys, arbitrators, judges, and scholars will value Supplemental Damages in Private International Law as a timesaving, one-stop resource on how different legal systems address damages issues.

Author : Edward Chancellor
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802160072

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The Price of Time by Edward Chancellor Pdf

A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn’t always popular—in the ancient world, usury was generally viewed as exploitative, a potential path to debt bondage and slavery. Yet as capitalism became established from the late Middle Ages onwards, denunciations of interest were tempered because interest was a necessary reward for lenders to part with their capital. And interest performs many other vital functions: it encourages people to save; enables them to place a value on precious assets, such as houses and all manner of financial securities; and allows us to price risk. All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest is often described as the “price of money,” but it is better called the “price of time:” time is scarce, time has value, interest is the time value of money. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, interest rates have sunk lower than ever before. Easy money after the global financial crisis in 2007/2008 has produced several ill effects, including the appearance of multiple asset price bubbles, a reduction in productivity growth, discouraging savings and exacerbating inequality, and forcing yield starved investors to take on excessive risk. The financial world now finds itself caught between a rock and a hard place, and Edward Chancellor is here to tell us why. In this enriching volume, Chancellor explores the history of interest and its essential function in determining how capital is allocated and priced.