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

The book reviews the finance, economics, and history of tontines, and argues that they should be resurrected in the twenty-first century.

From the last decades of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the twentieth, the tontine, in one form or another, was a ubiquitous financial instrumen

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 desc

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, corp