Popes & bankers : a cultural history of credit and debit from Aristotle to AIG /
By: Cashill, Jack
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BookPublisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2010.Description: x, 259 p ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781595552730 (pbk.); 1595552731 (pbk.)Other title: Popes and bankers.Subject(s): Banks and banking -- History | Credit -- History | Usury -- History | Banks and banking -- History | Credit -- HistoryDDC classification: 332.09 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 332.09 CA PO (Browse shelf) | Available | T0039083 |
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| 332.0721 HA ND Handbook of research methods and applications in empirical finance / | 332.088297 AB IS Islamic finance : | 332.088297 HA EC Economics with Islamic orientation / | 332.09 CA PO Popes & bankers : | 332.09 FE AS The ascent of money : | 332.09 SH FI Finance and the good society / | 332.09051 FI NA Finance markets, the new economy, and growth / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-255).
The seventh circle -- Unto a stranger -- Hoping for nothing again -- Master of those who know -- Prepared for the crown -- Aboveboard -- The rules of equity -- I stand here for law -- Prodigals and projectors -- Tulips -- Bubbles -- The family business -- The socialism of fools -- The country of religiosity -- Time is money -- Jackson days -- A mountain load of debt -- Cross of gold -- Wizard of finance -- Jekyll Island -- Birth of the consumer -- Expelling the money changers -- Holy land -- The market's fools -- Membership has its privileges -- The greed decade -- Age of innocence -- Babel -- House on fire -- Restoration.
Traces the history of credit and debt from antiquity to the early twenty-first century, examining how money- lending became common despite ancient secular beliefs that it is a sin, and assessing that the financial woes of the early twenty-first century are the fault of borrowers, not lenders.
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