The Ancient Euro|Mediterranean Aversion for Usury

The Transition of Usury Through Ancient Greece, The Rise of ...

Usury is one prominent economic issue that demonstrates this evolution. As it has developed, usury, the lending of money at interest or excessive interest, has ...

The Consilia of Alessandro Nievo: On Jews and Usury in 15th ...

Objecting to a widespread practice throughout Europe in the middle ages, Alessandro Nievo argued that Jewish moneylending ought to be ...

Usury – EH.net - Economic History Association

The Greeks argued about usury, Hebrews denounced it, Roman law controlled it, and Christians began pondering it in the late Roman Empire. Medieval canon lawyers ...

a survey of the general usury laws

Almost since the beginnings of capitalistic society the exacting lender has been regarded with universal opprobrium and antipathy. We find this aversion in ...

Debt in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East: credit, money ...

[6] Graeber's theory is a powerful analytical tool by which Weisweiler can counter outdated views of the late Roman economy as “declining” ...

"History of Usury" by Cheryl A. Olechnowicz

... Middle Ages. The Christian church drew on biblical passages and moral and religious reasons to define usury as a sin. The Church placed a ban on the ...

Proof of Europe's crazy aversion to equity - European Investment Bank

This aversion to equity financing was not explained by any other variable that we controlled for. It cannot easily be explained by economic ...

New book traces history of interest and usury in many cultures

But while charging interest – and certainly usury, or excessive interest – was prohibited in most ancient cultures, Houkes acknowledges that the ...