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ISBN-13: 9781498545808
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
By James B. Greenberg, By Thomas K. Park
Price: AUD $103.00
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Local release date: 14/10/2019
Format: Paperback 330 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Society & culture: general [JF]

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Google Preview: In this book, James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park take an anthropological approach to the economic history of the past one thousand years and define credit as a potentially transformative force involving inequalties, rather than an exchange of equal valued commodites. Guiding readers through the medieval period all the way to the modern day, and tracking through the Mediterranean and Europe, Greenberg and Park reorient financial history and position social capital and ethical thought at its center. They examine the multicultural origins of credit and finance, from banking to credit cards and predatory lending, and bringing us up to date, they explore the forces that led to the collapse of global credit markets in 2007-2008. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, economics, religion, and sociology.; 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; Google Preview content