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.
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 an...
