Contents -- 1 Introduction: Understanding Money -- 2 "Great Creating Nature": How Human Economics Grows Out of Natural Increase -- 3 "Nothing Will Come of Nothing": The Love Bond and the Meaning of the Zero -- 4 "My Purse, My Person": How Bonds Connect People and Property, Souls and Bodies -- 5 "The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strained": Why Justice Must Be Lubricated with Mercy -- 6 "Never Call a True Piece of Gold a Counterfeit": How Does One Stamp a Value on a Coin and Make It Stick? -- 7 "Thou Owest God a Death": Debt, Time, and the Parable of the Talents -- 8 "Bounty . . . That Grew the More for Reaping": Why Creation Enters into Bonds -- 9 "Dear Life Redeems You": The Economics of Resurrection -- 10 "O Brave New World": Shakespeare and the Economic Future -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.