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Author |
: Charles R. Geisst |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2013-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812207507 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812207505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beggar Thy Neighbor by : Charles R. Geisst
The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin. While the concept of usury reflects transcendent notions of fairness, its definition has varied over time and place: Roman law distinguished between simple and compound interest, the medieval church banned interest altogether, and even Adam Smith favored a ceiling on interest. But in spite of these limits, the advantages and temptations of lending prompted financial innovations from margin investing and adjustable-rate mortgages to credit cards and microlending. In Beggar Thy Neighbor, financial historian Charles R. Geisst tracks the changing perceptions of usury and debt from the time of Cicero to the most recent financial crises. This comprehensive economic history looks at humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit. Beggar Thy Neighbor examines the major debt revolutions of the past, demonstrating that extensive leverage and debt were behind most financial market crashes from the Renaissance to the present day. Geisst argues that usury prohibitions, as part of the natural law tradition in Western and Islamic societies, continue to play a key role in banking regulation despite modern advances in finance. From the Roman Empire to the recent Dodd-Frank financial reforms, usury ceilings still occupy a central place in notions of free markets and economic justice.
Author |
: Jeremy Bentham |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 54 |
Release |
: 1837 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044009776808 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Defence of Usury by : Jeremy Bentham
Author |
: Mark Ord |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1809 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101047911274 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Essay on the Law of Usury by : Mark Ord
Author |
: David W. Jones |
Publisher |
: University Press of America |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0761827498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780761827498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reforming the Morality of Usury by : David W. Jones
In the early years of the sixteenth century, the Church experienced a dramatic shift in its moral perception of the practice of usury. Leaders of the continental Protestant Reformation (Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist) all grappled with the Roman Catholic Church's moral teaching on the practice of lending money at interest. Although these three theological streams addressed the same moral problem, at relatively the same time, they each responded differently. Reforming the Morality of Usury examines how the leaders of each major stream in the continental Protestant Reformation adopted a different approach to reforming moral teaching on the practice of usury.
Author |
: Benjamin Nelson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:251637169 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The idea of usury : from tribal brotherhood to universal otherhood by : Benjamin Nelson
Author |
: Hartmut Kreikebaum, Hartwig Bechte, Theodor Ellinger |
Publisher |
: Duncker & Humblot |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3428477855 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783428477852 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval usury and the commercialization of feudal bonds by : Hartmut Kreikebaum, Hartwig Bechte, Theodor Ellinger
Author |
: Zippy |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2017-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1544688873 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781544688879 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Usury by : Zippy
Understanding usury requires an understanding of how the nature of some contracts differs, fundamentally and categorically, from the nature of others. Usury is not a matter of the same kind of contract differing only by 'excessive interest'. Usurious contracts constitute a kind of contract which is intrinsically immoral by its very nature. This book is intended to help people understand what usury is - and is not - and answer many of the questions which naturally arise.
Author |
: James Birch Kelly |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 1835 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0019269630 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Summary of the History and Law of Usury by : James Birch Kelly
Author |
: Jeremiah O'Callaghan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 1834 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:600039832 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Usury, Funds, and Banks by : Jeremiah O'Callaghan
Author |
: Jeremiah W. Blydenburgh |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1844 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105044204522 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Treatise on the Law of Usury ; to which are Added, the Statutes of the Several States Relating to Interest Now in Force by : Jeremiah W. Blydenburgh