The Moral Economy: Poverty, Credit, and Trust in Early Modern Europe - Image 1

£65.19

Cambridge University Press The Moral Economy: Poverty, Credit, and Trust in Early Modern Europe

Name: The Moral Economy: Poverty, Credit, and Trust in Early Modern Europe
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 63.63 GBP
Availability: InStock

Business & Economic History

Price History & Forecast

Last 39 days • 39 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 39 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £61 (12 days, 30.8%)

Price range: £61 - £65

Price levels: 4 different prices over 39 days

Description

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, and analyzes the institutions created to eradicate usury and the informal petty financial economy that developed as a result. Laurence Fontaine unpacks the values that structured these lending practices, namely, the two competing cultures of credit that coexisted, fought, and sometimes merged: the vibrant aristocratic culture and the capitalistic merchant culture. More broadly, Fontaine shows how economic trust between individuals was constructed in the early modern world. By creating a dialogue between past and present, and contrasting their definitions of poverty, the role of the market, and the mechanisms of microcredit, Fontaine draws attention to the necessity of recognizing the different values that coexist in diverse political economies.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1107018811
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 21 April 2014
Listed Since: 07 August 2013

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press The Moral Economy: Poverty, Credit, and Trust in Early Modern Europe

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge - Money, Morality, and Culture in Europe Book

The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit (Perspectives in Economic and Social History)

The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)

Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: Mercantilism and the Making of the Modern Economic Mind (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)

A History of the Credit Market in Central Europe: The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Money as God?: The Monetization of the Market and its Impact on Religion, Politics, Law, and Ethics

The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World: Volume 1, 1700 to 1870

MACMILLAN - Trust and Power in Consumer Credit Relationships

Premodern Financial Systems: A Historical Comparative Study

An Economic History of Europe: Knowledge, Institutions and Welfare, Prehistory to the Present (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)

The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

FairEconomy: Crises, Culture, Competition and the Role of Law: 19 (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 19)

Religion and the Morality of the Market: Anthropological Perspectives

Going to Market: Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650 (History of Retailing and Consumption)

Markets, Morals, and Religion - Routledge Economics Book

The Economy of Salvation: Ethical and Anthropological Foundations of Market Relations in the First Two Books of the Bible: 4 (Virtues and Economics, 4)

Power and Principle in the Market Place: On Ethics and Economics

The State, the Financial System and Economic Modernization

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (Princeton Paperbacks)

Early Modern Bonds of Trust: From Shakespeare to Milton (Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama)

Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200–1500

Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa

A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe: Published in Italian as Profitti del potere: Stato ed economia nell’Europa moderna (Perspectives in Economic and Social History)