The price of time : the real story of interest
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Published
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover editon.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Published
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover editon.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.
General Note
"Published simultaneously in Canada"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index.
Description
"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."--,Jacket flaps.
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