Abstract
Though Shakespeare’s familiar caveat counsels that both borrowing and lending are social taboos, most people, including the Bard himself, would doubtless opt for the latter practice over the former. To be cast in the role of lender implies possession of some economic, social, or intellectual resource deemed sufficiently valuable to be coveted by others not fortunate enough to possess it in adequate supply. By contrast, borrowing is a humbling activity, for borrowers are forced to concede that through the vagaries of either fate or chance or because of some character or performance flaw, they have failed to amass a sufficient store of the valued resource.
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