Tontine: a history, the
Auteur :
McDiarmid, Andrew
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781032791999
Date de publication :
4 oct. 2024
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
For almost 200 years, beginning in the late seventeenth century, the tontine – essentially, a shared investment fund with benefit of survivorship - was a ubiquitous financial instrument. From meeting rooms to libraries, public baths to theatres, from armies to medicine and on to religion, the scheme was everywhere.