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.


Format Inbunden Omfång 128 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Taylor & Francis Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2024-09-25 ISBN 9781032791999