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usury

Description: The practice of lending money at excessively high or exploitative interest rates, considered in economic, legal, and ethical contexts.
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The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning
1988 · Albert R. Jonsen, Stephen Toulmin · 795
Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets
2007 · Alvin E Roth · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 580
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A History of Interest Rates.
1978 · John H. Wood, Sidney Homer · The Journal of Finance · 540
Aquinas
1998 · John Finnis · 507
Imperfect Information, Screening, and the Costs of Informal Lending: A Study of a Rural Credit Market in Pakistan
1990 · Irfan Aleem · The World Bank Economic Review · 373
The Scholastic Analysis of Usury.
1958 · J. Fred Weston, John T. Noonan · The Journal of Finance · 366
Islamic Law and Finance; Religion, Risk, and Return
2000 · Kamal M. Amjad Mian, Frank E. Vogel, et al. · Journal of Law and Religion · 301
Medieval Economic Thought
2002 · Diana Wood · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 300
The scholastic analysis of usury
1957 · John T. Noonan · bepress Legal Repository · 289
The Usurer's Daughter
2002 · Lorna Hutson · Routledge eBooks · 275
On the formation of usurious interest rates in backward agriculture
1977 · Amit Bhaduri · Cambridge Journal of Economics · 256
Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm
1996 · Robert B Ekelund, Robert F Hébert, et al. · 248
Imperfect Substitutes: The Local Political Economy of Informal Finance and Microfinance in Rural China and India
2004 · Kellee S Tsai · World Development · 238
The Agrarian Question
2021 · Karl Kautsky · Routledge eBooks · 237
Rulers, Religion, and Riches
2017 · Jared Rubin · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 218
Usurious Piety: The Cash Waqf Controversy in the Ottoman Empire
1979 · Jon E. Mandaville · International Journal Middle East Studies · 209
La vie financière dans le monde romain. Les métiers de manieurs d'argent (IVe siècle av. J.-C. - IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.)
1987 · Jean Andreau · Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d' Athènes et de Rome · 196
The Idea of Usury: From Tribal Brotherhood to Universal Otherhood
1969 · Benjamin N. Nelson · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 190
Islamic Banking and Interest: A Study of the Prohibition of Riba and Its Contemporary Interpretation
2000 · Kilian Balz, Abdullah Saeed · Journal of Law and Religion · 183
Your money or your life : economy and religion in the Middle Ages
1988 · Jacques Le Goff · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 176
The Aristotelian analysis of usury
1984 · Odd Langholm · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 170
The Venetian money market: banks, panics, and the public debt, 1200-1500
1998 · Mueller, Reinhold Christopher 1940- · Choice Reviews Online · 157
The Ethical Crisis in Microfinance: Issues, Findings, and Implications
2013 · Marek Hudon, Joakim Sandberg · Business Ethics Quarterly · 151
Capitalism in Medieval Islam
1969 · Subhi Y. Labib · The Journal of Economic History · 151
Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm
1997 · Robert B. Ekelund, Robert F. Hébert, et al. · OUP Catalogue · 132
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