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Index
Cover
Praise for Thomas Levenson
Also by Thomas Levenson
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
INTRODUCTION: “THE GREAT FOLLIES OF LIFE”
LONDON, 1719
PART ONE: COUNTING AND THINKING
CHAPTER ONE: “The System of the World”
WOOLSTHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE, MIDSUMMER, 1665
CHAPTER TWO: “to make a Par and Equation between Lands and Labour”
CHAPTER THREE: “Very probable Conjectures”
CHAPTER FOUR: “mere opinion”
CHAPTER FIVE: “more paper credit”
CHAPTER SIX: “John Castaing, Broker, at his Office”
PART TWO: MONEY’S MAGIC POWER
CHAPTER EIGHT: “an Exquisite Management”
CHAPTER NINE: “many Conferences and Considerations”
CHAPTER TEN: “true to, and exact in, the performance of the General Work”
CHAPTER ELEVEN: “resolving to be rich”
CHAPTER TWELVE: “The Humour of the Town”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: “If the Computations I have made, be right …”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: “the largest honest fortune …”
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: “How goes the Stock”
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: “a mighty handsome entertainment”
PART THREE: THE FALL AND RISE OF MONEY
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: “the People were now … terrified to the last Degree”
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: “No Man understood Calculation and Numbers better than he”
CHAPTER NINETEEN: “a great and general Calamity”
CHAPTER TWENTY: “without a breach of parliamentary faith”
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: “Mercy may be Cruelty”
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: “ringing their bells”
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: “it cannot be cured”
EPILOGUE: “an endemic disease”
Acknowledgments
Notes
INTRODUCTION
PART 1
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
PART 2
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
PART 3
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
EPILOGUE
Bibliography
About the Author
An Invitation from the Publisher
CHAPTER SEVEN: “some way to answer these demands”
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