Hidden interests in credit and finance : power, ethics, and social capital across the last millennium / Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Thomas Kerlin, author.

Greenberg, James B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance--History.

Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.

Summary:

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 inequalities. Traveling through the Mediterranean and Europe, from the medieval period to the modern day, 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 to the collapse of global credit markets in 2007-2008. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, economics, religion, and sociology.

Contents:

Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic tradition

Credit and faith in medieval Iberia : the road not taken

Early European finance 1050-1650

Transcending feudal finance in Western Europe

Mercantile credit and the Atlantic slave trade

Chayanov, Marx, and hidden interests in rural Morocco

Ethnicity and social capital in 1970s sefrou

Problematizing modern consumer credit

An anthropology of the 2008 Credit Crisis

Conclusion: hidden interests and the development of finance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-4579-3