Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance

Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance

Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium

Greenberg, James B.; Park, Thomas K.

Lexington Books

09/2017

330

Dura

Inglês

9781498545785

15 a 20 dias

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.
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
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