Pricing the Future in the Seventeenth Century: Calculating Technologies in Competition

Time is money. But how much? What is money in the future worth to you today? This question of "present value" arises in myriad economic activities, from valuing financial securities to real estate transactions to governmental cost-benefit analysis-even the economics of climate change. In m...

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Main Author: Deringer, William P (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018-06-05T18:12:17Z.
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