James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park

Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance

Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium

• Broschiertes Buch

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: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781498545808
• ISBN-10: 1498545807
• Artikelnr.: 56154092

Autorenporträt

James B. Greenberg, 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