Tontine: A History

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.

List of contents

1.The Tontine: Here, There and Everywhere 2.The Origins and Early Examples of the Tontine: 1602-1699 3.Public Tontines in the Eighteenth Century 4.Private Tontines in Great Britain and Ireland, Europe, and North America: 1750-1900 5.The Rise and Fall of Tontine Life Insurance in the United States, 1867-1906 6.The Long Shadow of the Tontine Index

About the author

Andrew McDiarmid earned his PhD from the University of Dundee and attended Yale University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on financial history from the early modern period to the twentieth century, with his first monograph on the subject of the Scottish Financial Revolution released in 2023. He is currently the SFI/IRC pathways fellow at University College Dublin, where he is undertaking a major project exploring the history of tontines between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew McDiarmid, Andrew (University College Dublin) Mcdiarmid, McDiarmid Andrew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032791999
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279199-9
• No. of pages: 94
• Series: Routledge Focus on Financial History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / General, HISTORY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General, Economic history, Insurance & actuarial studies, Investment & securities, Investment and securities, Insurance and actuarial studies, Public finance accounting