The moral economy : poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe /

The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit and trust in early modern Europe. It starts with an examination of poverty, the need for credit and the lending practices of different social groups. It then reconstructs the battles between the Churches and the State around the ban on usury, a...

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Main Author: Fontaine, Laurence
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Prologue -- Poverty, credit and social networks -- Peasants and debt logic -- The elite and debt logic -- Urban financial microcircuits -- Women's economic spheres and credit -- Between bank and assistance : setting up pawnshops -- The battle of prohibitions against usury -- Political economies and cultures of exchange -- Political economy and exchange practices -- Building trust -- Conclusion. 
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