The Roots of Western Finance: Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World

ISBN-13: 9781498545815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str.

Thomas K. Park; James B. Greenberg

Opis

In The Roots of Western Finance, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to origins of western finance and credit in ancient societies, covering a period of five thousand years from ancient Mesopotamia to the Islamic world in the eleventh century. Park and Greenberg reveal that credit is not simply an economic transaction; it is a social relationship and a technology of power.