Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance

Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-23
Mått:154 x 225 x 20 mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:330
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498545808

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James B. Greenberg is professor of anthropology and senior research anthropologist at the University of Arizona.Thomas K. Park is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.

Recensioner i media

This compelling account of the long history of credit and its animating ideas over the past thousand years convincingly shows that the symbolic, moral and social entailments of finance have always sat alongside its abstraction. Excavating the former provides a necessary perspective on the obscurantism and often dangerous persuasiveness, particularly in the present era, of the latter.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic TraditionChapter 2: Credit and Faith in Medieval Iberia: The Road not TakenChapter 3: Early European Finance 1050–1650Chapter 4: Transcending Feudal Finance in Western EuropeChapter 5: Mercantile Credit and the Atlantic Slave TradeChapter 6: Chayanov, Marx, and hidden interests in Rural MoroccoChapter 7: Ethnicity and Social Capital in 1970s SefrouChapter 8: Problematizing Modern Consumer CreditChapter 9: An Anthropology of the 2008 Credit CrisisConclusion: Hidden Interests and the Development of Finance