Deborah YaffeAug 11, 2019Austen's pewterJane Austen, her brother Henry would have us believe, didn’t care about making money. “She became an authoress entirely from taste and...
Deborah YaffeNov 10, 2014Darcy the one-tenth-of-one-percenterA fascinating column in a recent edition of the Financial Times’ FT Magazine uses the income data in Pride and Prejudice to illustrate a...
Deborah YaffeSep 3, 2014In it for the moneyNot being a math type, I have never spent much time trying to calculate the contemporary equivalents of the sums mentioned in Jane...
