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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 633g
• ISBN-13: 9781498545785
• ISBN-10: 1498545785
• Artikelnr.: 48693131

Autorenporträt

By James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park

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