The Political Economy and Ethics of Debt Financing: The Brutality of the Charging of Interest on Loans

by Patrick O'Sullivan and Paolo Ricci

This book takes a fresh look at an age-old controversy in ethics and political economy that stretches right back to Aristotle: the morality and the economics of debt financing, or the charging of interest on loans. It endeavours to show the immense relevance of those ancient debates in the contemporary economy.

Outside of countries which practise Islam and Islamic finance, the charging of interest is taken completely for granted today and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032900679
• ISBN13: 9781032900674
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"