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This is a link to an article from the Economist: "Cents and Sensibility" which describes a
longer article by an investment fund manager.
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1785682 It is an amusing
aside, particularly for those among us who love Jane Austen. For the economic historians,
I have a query. How did Darcy get a fixed income when interest rates were
changing/declining? He may have received rent as a landed gentry, but the fixed part must
have come from inheritance. And there was always mention in the novels of that period of a
"fixed" annual income which determined for the women their chance to be married and for
the men to be admired.
 
Sumitra Shah 
 
 
 
 
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