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

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Fontaine, Laurence 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2014]
Ausgabe:First English edition
Schlagworte:Poverty Credit Usury Loans Europa Finanzierung Kredit Geldwirtschaft Wirtschaftsethik Geschichte 1600-1820
Umfang:vii, 320 Seiten
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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: From the Ancien Régime to the twenty-first century: a journey back and forth