Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance - Power, Ethics, and Social Capital Across the Last Millennium

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Greenberg, James B. Greenberg, James B. Park Greenberg, Greenberg James B., Park, Thomas K. Park, Park Thomas K.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498545808
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4580-8
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 21st Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Medieval History, Social and cultural anthropology, General and world history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 1700 To C 1800, Finance and the finance industry