James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park

Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance

Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium

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Produktbeschreibung

Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance takes an anthropological approach to the roots of Western finance and credit in ancient societies from early Mesopotamia to eleventh-century Islam. The authors reveal that credit is not just an economic transaction but also a social relationship and a technology of power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781498545785
• ISBN-10: 1498545785
• Artikelnr.: 48693131

Autorenporträt

James B. Greenberg is professor of anthropology and senior research anthropologist at the University of Arizona. Thomas K. Park is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic Tradition Chapter
2: Credit and Faith in Medieval Iberia: The Road not Taken Chapter 3: Early
European Finance 1050-1650 Chapter 4: Transcending Feudal Finance in
Western Europe Chapter 5: Mercantile Credit and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Chapter 6: Chayanov, Marx, and hidden interests in Rural Morocco Chapter 7:
Ethnicity and Social Capital in 1970s Sefrou Chapter 8: Problematizing
Modern Consumer Credit Chapter 9: An Anthropology of the 2008 Credit Crisis
Conclusion: Hidden Interests and the Development of Finance