The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0234 Thursday, 3 February 2000.
[1] From: Tom Reedy <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 2 Feb 2000 15:02:10 -0600
Subj: Re: SHK 11.0220 Re: Money and Prostitution
[2] From: Ronald Moyer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 2 Feb 2000 14:38:42 -0600 (CST)
Subj: Re: Historical Values of Money
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From: Tom Reedy <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 2 Feb 2000 15:02:10 -0600
Subject: 11.0220 Re: Money and Prostitution
Comment: Re: SHK 11.0220 Re: Money and Prostitution
Frank Callahan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> wrote:
> Perhaps the comparison is used because prostitution is referred to as
> "the world's oldest profession". What other "profession" crosses time
> so thoroughly?
That's easy: priest/pimp. They have since split into two professions.
Tom Reedy
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From: Ronald Moyer <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 2 Feb 2000 14:38:42 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: Historical Values of Money
Roy Davies at the University of Exeter offers a page on links to:
Current Value of Old Money
A frequent question is "how much would a specified amount of money at a
certain period of time be worth today?" The sources [that he lists] are
useful in attempting to answer this question. . . . Over long time
spans, changes in prices give only the very roughest and most
approximate idea of changes in the value of money. Nevertheless, with
this caveat, the sources listed . . . should be useful for anyone
interested in this subject.
Davies's page can be found at:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
and includes several online sites dealing with historical economic
information (variously, purchasing power, inflation, consumer prices,
costs and wages, etc.) for the UK and the USA, as well as listing
several print resources. Best,
Ron Moyer