The Tontine Volume 2

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774644975
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tontine, Volume 2 written by Thomas B. Costain and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-23T00:00:00Z with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In volume II of The Tontine, the multigenerational story of 3 families continues. The number of recipients receiving payouts on the life insurance scheme are dying out and the payouts are becoming more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the recipients become a mere handful, all sorts of betting occurs in the general populace on who will be the last survivor. Who wins the tontine and who loses?

Author : Thomas Bertram Costain
Publisher : London : Collins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tontine written by Thomas Bertram Costain and published by London : Collins. This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A London con man creates a tontine wherein the surviving members receive interest on their investment, while the capital, after some years, is to go to the care of veterans.

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774644967
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tontine, Volume 1 written by Thomas B. Costain and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-23T14:14:00Z with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 60+ years, beginning on the day Waterloo was won, it is a multigenerational story of 3 families during the Industrial Revolution. Lots of detailed descriptions of life among the varied social classes, it has been likened to stories by Dickens. It’s a very good historical fiction. A tontine is a life insurance scheme, stratified by age. Enrollees received payouts after an initial growth period, the amounts determined by the number of living recipients. Over time, as participants died, the payouts became more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the recipients became a mere handful, all sorts of betting occurred in the general populace on who would be the last survivor.

Author : Timothy Alborn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351576518
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800–1914 written by Timothy Alborn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries.

Author : Martha J. Lamb
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849649628
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the City of New York, Volume 2 written by Martha J. Lamb and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, formerly the editor of "The American Historical Magazine," and one of the best informed historical writers of our times, left a great legacy at her death, especially to the citizens of New York, in her masterful effort "The History of the City of New York." This work has an increasing value with each succeeding year, and, as the late Hon. Thurlow Weed wrote, "No library is complete without it". Everything about New York, from the first day of its settlement until today, that is worth knowing, is between the pages of this valuable volume. This book is widely conceived as "the" authority on the first two centuries of New York City, forever. This is volume two out of two.

Author : Moshe A. Milevsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316407314
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King William's Tontine written by Moshe A. Milevsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of survivors correspondingly increased. Morbid, perhaps, but this was one of the earliest forms of longevity insurance in which the pool shared the risk. Moshe A. Milevsky tells the story of the first tontine issued by the English government in 1693, known as King William's tontine, intended to finance the war against French King Louis XIV. He explains how tontines work, the financial and economic thinking behind them, as well as why they fell into disrepute. Milevsky concludes with a provocative argument that suitably modified tontines should be resurrected for twenty-first-century retirement income planning.

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1911576291
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 2 written by Jeremy Bentham and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century. Bentham’s correspondence reveals that in the late 1770s he was working intensively on developing a code of penal law, but also expanding his acquaintance and, to a moderate degree, enhancing his reputation as a legal thinker. A significant family event took place in 1779 when his brother Samuel went to Russia in order to make his fortune.

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3988680265
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America, Volume 2 written by John Lambert and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume is devoted to Canada, the second to the United States. Lambert landed at Quebec in October 1806. He furnishes a picture of the place of that date, and describes the social manners, dress and political events which were happening, with more than the usual care bestowed by the passing traveller. Much of his historical narrative, however, is not in accordance with fact, having been disproved by authentic document . From Quebec he visited Three Rivers and Montreal, and ascending Lake Champlain entered the United States. Lambert remained at Quebec from November 1806 to August 1807. He came back to Canada in 1808, in order to obtain a passage home. We learn from this work that at this date, both at Quebec and Montreal, the theatre had been established and performances periodically given. His account does not suggest that the acting was of a high order.

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429000473
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lambert's Travels Through Canada written by John Lambert and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1970 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhat mistitled, Lambert's Travels through Canada and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & 1808, would more properly be titled ""Lambert's Travels along the East Coast of the United States, ending in Canada."" There is much discussion of agriculture (in particular the Southern plantations), religious observance, and social mores. Lambert's journey is limited, focusing on South Carolina, New York, and New England.The author also provides biographical sketches and anecdotes about famous Americans. vol. 2 of 2

Author : Werner Stark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317657373
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings written by Werner Stark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains all the writings that are grouped around Bentham's boldest idea - the proposal of a 'circulating currency': a government sponsored currency which would be both a kind of savings certificate and a kind of paper money. The roots of this proposal are illustrated in two pamphlets from 1794-96, along with subsequent pamphlets and discussions which show Bentham's unsuccessful negotiations with the trasury on this matter.