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Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance : Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium, Hardback Book

Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance : Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium Hardback

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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.

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